Farms Decrease in Wisconsin in 2021

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 -- 1:00 PM

(Wisconsin Ag Connection) The total number of farms in Wisconsin during 2021 was 64,100.

According to the Wisconsin Ag Connection, that was 300 less than the year earlier, according to newly released figures from the USDA. Of those farms, about 6,500 of those were registered dairy herds.

By the numbers, Wisconsin had 28,200 operations in the $1,000-$9,999 sales range this past year, down 500 compared to 2020. But the largest of the farm categories, which were operations that did over a million dollars in business, went up by 50 at 2,100.

Total land on farms in the Badger State was 14.2 million acres, which was about 100,000 acres less than the year earlier. Wisconsin's average farm size remained steady at 222 acres. The average farm size for those in the $1,000,000 and over economic sales class was 1,714 acres.

Meanwhile, the number of farms in the United States for 2021 is estimated at 2.01 million, down by 6,950 from 2020. Total land on farms, at 895 million acres, decreased by about 1.3 million acres from the prior year. The average farm size in the U.S. is 445 acres, unchanged from last year.

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