How Many Farms Does Each State Have? 🧑‍🌾

What We're Showing

The number of farms in each U.S. state, using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as of February 2025.

Key Takeaways

• With 1.88 million farms across all of the United States, Texas has the most of any state at 231K, just over 12% of America's farms.
• Many of Texas' farms are ranch-style operations, focused on cattle and hay, which tend to be smaller and thus more numerous than large single crop farms.
• In terms of farmland, Texas still leads with 125 million acres, followed by Montana (57.4 million acres) and Kansas (44.8 million acres).