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Exhibit 646

Farms and Land in Farms: 2020 Summary

Exhibit 646 ยท Agency statistical report

Farms and Land in Farms: 2020 Summary

Total land in farms, at 896,600,000 acres, decreased 800,000 acres from 2019.

Total U.S. land in farms in 2020: 896.6 million acres across about 2.02 million farms. 242,000 acres is about 0.027 percent of that total.

Source
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
Date
February 2021
Quoted from
Summary, "Land in Farms"
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/fnlo0221.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding AGR-5.19
Reported The Land Report reported in January 2021 that Bill Gates held 268,984 acres in 19 states, 242,000 of them farmland, which is about 0.027 percent of the 896.6 million acres of U.S. land in farms in 2020.