EAST LANSING, Mich. — The number of farms in Ohio in 2019 was 77,800, unchanged from 2018, according to Cheryl Turner, State Statistician of the USDA, NASS, Ohio Field Office. Land in farms was 13.6 million acres, down 300,000 from last year. The average size farm in Ohio was 175 acres per farm, down 4 acres from 2018.
The number of farms in the United States for 2019 is estimated at 2,023,400, down 5,800 farms from 2018. Total land in farms, at 897,400,000 acres, decreased 2,100,000 acres from 2018. The average farm size for 2019 is 444 acres, up 1 acre from the previous year.
— USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Ohio Field Office
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