EAST LANSING, Mich. — The number of farms in Ohio in 2021 was 76,900, according to Cheryl Turner, State Statistician of the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Ohio Field Office. This is down 900 farms from 2020.

Land in farms was 13.5 million acres, down 100,000 acres from last year. The average size farm in Ohio was 176 acres per farm, up 1 acre 2020. 

The number of farms in the United States for 2021 is estimated at 2,012,050, down 6,950 farms from 2020. Total land in farms, at 895,300,000 acres, decreased 1,300,000 acres from 2020. The average farm size for 2021 is 445 acres, up from 444 acres the previous year.

A farm is defined as any establishment from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold during the year. The $1,000 threshold can be met by any combination of sales and government payments. Land in farms includes: crop and livestock acreage, wasteland, woodland, pasture, land in summer fallow, idle cropland, land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, and other set-aside or commodity acreage programs.

— USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service