# US states by land in farms, 2022

All 50 values come from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service for 2022, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `farmland_area`
- Unit: acres
- Definition: Land operated by farms in the census year, in acres, including cropland, pasture, woodland and land under farm buildings, as counted by the USDA Census of Agriculture every five years.
- Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022) (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/usda-nass
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture. Census of Agriculture: land in farms, acres, nation, states and counties (1997 to 2022). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/land-in-farms/us-states

| Rank | Place | acres |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 125,471,325 |
| 2 | Montana | 57,601,320 |
| 3 | Kansas | 44,794,702 |
| 4 | Nebraska | 43,975,693 |
| 5 | South Dakota | 42,304,601 |
| 6 | New Mexico | 39,128,563 |
| 7 | North Dakota | 38,537,022 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 32,897,563 |
| 9 | Colorado | 30,213,899 |
| 10 | Iowa | 29,978,165 |
| 11 | Wyoming | 28,776,321 |
| 12 | Missouri | 27,026,243 |
| 13 | Illinois | 26,292,041 |
| 14 | Arizona | 25,525,087 |
| 15 | Minnesota | 25,442,625 |
| 16 | California | 24,190,604 |
| 17 | Oregon | 15,295,779 |
| 18 | Indiana | 14,602,240 |
| 19 | Washington | 13,855,414 |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 13,784,678 |
| 21 | Arkansas | 13,722,525 |
| 22 | Ohio | 13,652,346 |
| 23 | Kentucky | 12,431,190 |
| 24 | Idaho | 11,547,963 |
| 25 | Tennessee | 10,732,951 |
| 26 | Utah | 10,494,923 |
| 27 | Mississippi | 10,251,497 |
| 28 | Georgia | 9,939,313 |
| 29 | Florida | 9,701,400 |
| 30 | Michigan | 9,472,069 |
| 31 | Alabama | 8,629,101 |
| 32 | North Carolina | 8,128,136 |
| 33 | Louisiana | 7,986,381 |
| 34 | Virginia | 7,309,687 |
| 35 | Pennsylvania | 7,058,325 |
| 36 | New York | 6,502,286 |
| 37 | Nevada | 5,896,654 |
| 38 | South Carolina | 4,553,922 |
| 39 | West Virginia | 3,549,104 |
| 40 | Maryland | 1,978,036 |
| 41 | Maine | 1,225,046 |
| 42 | Vermont | 1,173,890 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 1,053,302 |
| 44 | Alaska | 869,852 |
| 45 | New Jersey | 711,502 |
| 46 | Delaware | 522,834 |
| 47 | Massachusetts | 464,451 |
| 48 | New Hampshire | 417,187 |
| 49 | Connecticut | 372,014 |
| 50 | Rhode Island | 59,076 |