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.
Figures
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: farms and sales. Data period 2022. Published .
| Measure | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Farms2022 | 22,877 | 2022 |
| Land in farms2022 | 11.55 million acres | 2022 |
| Market value of agricultural products sold2022 | $10.9 billion | 2022 |
Pages built on this dataset
Publisher
- Organization
- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Publisher’s dataset
- Census of Agriculture: farms and sales
- File or API used
- https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
- Methodology
- https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Ag_Census_Terms/
Coverage
- Geography
- Idaho and its 44 counties, every U.S. state, and the nation
- Time coverage
- 1997-2022
- Update frequency
- Every 5 years
- Published
- July 2, 2024
- Retrieved
- September 9, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 1,708 observations, 1997-2022
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
- Land in farms counts all acreage in the operation regardless of ownership or use, the Census's own land-in-farms concept.
- Market value of agricultural products sold is in current dollars for each Census year, not adjusted for inflation, so years are not directly comparable.
- USDA withholds some county figures for disclosure avoidance; land in farms is withheld for Boise and Shoshone counties in 2012.
- State-level figures cover 50 states; the Census of Agriculture's state aggregation has never included the District of Columbia.
- Understand Idaho pulls this series through USDA's Quick Stats programmatic API, which requires a registration key. The interactive tool linked above needs no key and returns the same figures.
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Census of Agriculture: farms and sales”, compiled from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Census of Agriculture: farms and sales. Retrieved September 9, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/nass-census-ag/.
Cite USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service directly for the figures themselves.
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