WASHINGTON — The USDA’s Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service has introduced the outcomes of the 2022 Census of Agriculture, spanning greater than 6 million knowledge factors about America’s farms and ranches and the individuals who function them right down to the county stage.
The knowledge collected immediately from producers reveals a continued decline within the complete variety of U.S. farms. Nonetheless, the info additionally present an increase within the variety of new and starting (working 10 or fewer years on any farm) in addition to younger (beneath the age of 35) producers.
The total Census of Agriculture report in addition to publication dates for added ag census knowledge merchandise will be discovered at nass.usda.gov/AgCensus.
“We’re happy to supply up to date Census of Agriculture knowledge to all those that serve U.S. agriculture, particularly the producers who gave their time to finish the questionnaire. Census of Agriculture knowledge inform a narrative. This complete snapshot each 5 years helps knowledge customers to see developments and shifts within the trade over time and helps producers do enterprise,” mentioned NASS Administrator Hubert Hamer. “General, although there are at all times adjustments throughout U.S. agriculture, the info stay largely in step with the earlier ag census. Information customers may also discover some new knowledge on the matters of hemp, precision agriculture, and web entry.”
Ag census knowledge present worthwhile insights into demographics, economics, land use and actions on U.S. farms and ranches akin to:
· There have been 1.9 million farms and ranches (down 7 p.c from 2017) with a mean measurement of 463 acres (up 5 p.c) on 880 million acres of farmland (down 2 p.c). That’s 39 p.c of all U.S. land.
· Household-owned and operated farms accounted for 95 p.c of all U.S. farms and operated 84 p.c of land in farms.
· U.S. farms and ranches produced $543 billion in agricultural merchandise, up from $389 billion in 2017. With farm manufacturing bills of $424 billion, U.S. farms had internet money earnings of $152 billion. Common farm earnings rose to $79,790. A complete of 43 p.c of farms had constructive internet money farm earnings in 2022.
· Farms with web entry continued to rise from 75 p.c in 2017 to 79 p.c in 2022.
· A complete of 153,101 farms and ranches used renewable vitality producing programs in comparison with 133,176 farms in 2017, a 15 p.c improve. The vast majority of farms (76 p.c) with renewable vitality programs reported utilizing photo voltaic panels.
· In 2022, 116,617 farms offered on to customers, with gross sales of $3.3 billion. Worth of gross sales elevated 16 p.c from 2017.
· The 105,384 farms with gross sales of $1 million or extra had been 6 p.c of U.S. farms and 31 p.c of farmland; they offered greater than three-fourths of all agricultural merchandise. The 1.4 million farms with gross sales of $50,000 or much less accounted for 74 p.c of farms, 25 p.c of farmland, and a pair of p.c of gross sales.
· Almost three-fourths of farmland was utilized by farms specializing in two commodity classes: oilseed and grain manufacturing (32 p.c) and beef cattle manufacturing (40 p.c).
· The typical age of all producers was 58.1, up 0.6 years from 2017. This can be a smaller improve than common age will increase between prior censuses.
· There have been simply over 1 million farmers with 10 or fewer years of expertise, a rise within the variety of starting farmers from 2017 of 11 p.c. Starting farmers are youthful than all farmers, with a mean age of 47.1.
· The variety of producers beneath age 35 was 296,480, comprising 9 p.c of all producers. The 221,233 farms with younger producers making choices are typically bigger than common in each acres and gross sales.
· In 2022, 1.2 million feminine producers accounted for 36 p.c of all producers. Fifty-eight p.c of all farms had a minimum of one feminine resolution maker.
First carried out in 1840 together with the decennial Census and carried out since 1997 by USDA NASS — the federal statistical company chargeable for producing official knowledge about U.S. agriculture — the Census of Agriculture stays probably the most complete agricultural knowledge for each state and county within the nation, USDA added.
