Ranking Of States With The Largest Farms
The average farm size in the United States in 2021 was 445 acres, up 1 acre from the prior year.
Wyoming had the largest average farm size in the United States in 2021 followed by Montana & Nevada.
Wyoming and Montana are the only 2 states in the United States with average farm sizes over 2,000 acres.
Farm Defined
A farm is "any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year." Government payments are included in sales. Ranches, institutional farms, experimental and research farms, and Indian Reservations are included as farms. Places with the entire acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), and other government conservation programs are counted as farms.
