Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (EPA state inventory)

Greenhouse gas emissions of a US state allocated to the agriculture economic sector. Livestock digestion and manure, fertilised soils, rice, and fuel used on farms. In million metric tons of CO2 equivalent: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases weighted by their 100-year global warming potentials (IPCC AR5), from the EPA inventory of US emissions by state, which allocates the national inventory to the states with the same methods for every state. Emissions are counted where they occur, so electricity is counted in the state that generates it, not the state that uses it.

The six economic sectors add up to state_ghg_emissions. EPA says these estimates are not official state data: a state's own inventory can differ because it uses other methods, data or scopes. Each annual edition recalculates the whole series back to 1990.

Key facts

Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

Rankings

US states by greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (EPA state inventory), 2022

Top 15. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Texas: 63.7 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentTexas63.7Iowa: 40.59 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentIowa40.59California: 36.56 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentCalifornia36.56Nebraska: 36.4 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentNebraska36.4Kansas: 36.31 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentKansas36.31Minnesota: 27.09 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentMinnesota27.09South Dakota: 26.33 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentSouth Dakota26.33Illinois: 23.7 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentIllinois23.7Missouri: 22.76 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentMissouri22.76Wisconsin: 22.33 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentWisconsin22.33North Dakota: 20.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentNorth Dakota20.6Oklahoma: 19.43 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentOklahoma19.43Montana: 18.97 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentMontana18.97Arkansas: 17.63 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentArkansas17.63Idaho: 15.77 million tonnes of CO2 equivalentIdaho15.77
million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Source: EPA state greenhouse gas inventory, EPA greenhouse gas inventory by state: Agriculture economic sector, million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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