South Dakota's number of farms and ranches remained unchanged during 2022, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
The number of farms and ranches in the state, at 29,400, was unchanged from 2021. Numbers of farms and ranches in South Dakota with less than $100,000 in agricultural sales decreased 300 farms from a year earlier while operations with more than $100,000 in agricultural sales increased 300 farms.
Land in farms and ranches in South Dakota totaled 43.2 million acres, unchanged from 2021.
The average size of operation, at 1,469 acres, was unchanged from a year earlier.
The number of farms in the United States for 2022 is estimated at 2,002,700, down 9,350 farms from 2021. The number of farms increased in all sales classes except the $1,000-$9,999 and $10,000-$99,999 sales classes. In 2022, 50.8 percent of all farms had less than $10,000 in sales and 81.4 percent of all farms had less than $100,000 in sales. In 2022, 7.5 percent of all farms had sales of $500,000 or more.
Total land in farms, at 893,400,000 acres, decreased 1,900,000 acres from 2021. The biggest change for 2022 is that producers in Sales Class $100,000 - $249,999 operated 1,620,000 fewer acres than in 2021. In 2022, 30.0 percent of all farmland was operated by farms with less than $100,000 in sales, while 41.2 percent of all farmland was operated by farms with sales of $500,000 or more.
The average farm size for 2022 is 446 acres, up from 445 acres the previous year. Average farm size increased in the $1,000,000 or more sales class and decreased or remained unchanged in all other sales classes.
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