Agriculture
Farmland
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- Last checked
- Oct 10, 2026
- Editions
- 2 posters
No. 0030 · Oct 10, 2026
Britain farms 70% of its land; Papua New Guinea farms barely 3%
Open the poster →- What this number is
- How much U.S. farmland there is, how it is used, and what an acre is worth, from USDA surveys.
- Why it moves
- Crop prices, interest rates and buyers from outside farming move land values. Acreage changes slowly, as land is sold or rezoned.
Every edition2 posters · Oct 2026
- Oct 104.9M acres
U.S. organic farmland shrank to 4.9 million acres in 2021 after peaking in 2019
- Oct 10 · Latest70.3%
Britain farms 70% of its land; Papua New Guinea farms barely 3%
- Next—
Prints on the 1st. New data comes with USDA’s next land survey.
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