Idaho farms and farmland
Headline farm-count, land-in-farms, and market-value-of-products-sold figures for Idaho and its counties from the USDA Census of Agriculture, taken every five years.
Publisher
- Organization
- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Publisher’s dataset
- Census of Agriculture: farms, land in farms, and market value of products sold
- File or API used
- https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api/api_GET/
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-nass-census-ag.py- Methodology
- https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Ag_Census_Terms/
Coverage
- Geography
- Idaho and its 44 counties
- Time coverage
- 1997-2022
- Update frequency
- Every 5 years
- Published
- July 2, 2024
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- License
- The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Farms | Number of farm operations, from the Census of Agriculture. | count |
| Land in farms | Total acreage operated by farms, regardless of ownership, tenure, or use, from the Census of Agriculture. | acres |
| Market value of agricultural products sold | Market value of all agricultural products sold, in current dollars for the Census year, from the Census of Agriculture. | usd |
Caveats
- Figures are for Census of Agriculture years only: 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022; the Census is taken every five years and does not fill the intervening years.
- agriculture.land_in_farms_acres is Quick Stats' 'FARM OPERATIONS - ACRES OPERATED' series, the Census's land-in-farms concept: all acreage in the operation regardless of ownership or use.
- agriculture.market_value_products is the market value of all agricultural products sold, in current (not inflation-adjusted) dollars for each Census year, so year-over-year figures are not directly comparable without a deflator.
- USDA withholds some county-level figures for disclosure avoidance when too few farms report a value; those observations are omitted rather than estimated. Land in farms is withheld for Boise County and Shoshone County in 2012.
- publisherUpdated is the load date NASS Quick Stats stamps on the newest (2022) county-level release; individual older Census years were loaded on their own release dates.
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Downloads
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Census of Agriculture: farms, land in farms, and market value of products sold”, compiled from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: farms, land in farms, and market value of products sold. Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/nass-census-ag/. CC BY 4.0.
Cite USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service directly for the figures themselves.
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