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Minnesota Farms Down 100 from Last Year
Minnesota Ag Connection - 02/19/2018

The total number of farms in Minnesota in 2017 was 73,200, down 100 farms compared with a year ago, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service -- Farms and Land in Farms 2017 Summary report. The number of farms in both the $10,000-$99,999 and the $100,000-$249,999 sales classes decreased by 200 farms.

Total land in farms in Minnesota in 2017 was 25.9 million acres, unchanged since 2013. Farms in both the $250,000-$499,999 and the $1,000,000 and over sales classes showed an increase of 100,000 acres from 2016.

The average farm size in Minnesota in 2017 was 354 acres, up one acre from 2016. The average farm size in the $500,000-$999,999 sales class increased 19 acres from 961 acres on average in 2016 to 980 in 2017.


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