The total number of farms in Minnesota in 2019 was 68,000, down 500 farms from 2018, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Farms and Land in Farms 2019 Summary report.

Approximately two-thirds of Minnesota’s farms had less than $100,000 in sales.

Total land in farms in Minnesota in 2019 was 25.5 million acres, unchanged since 2017.

Farms in the $250,000 to $499,999 sales class showed an increase of 100,000 acres, while farms in the $1,000,000 and over sales class showed a decrease of 100,000 acres from 2018.

The average farm size in Minnesota in 2019 was 375 acres, up three acres from 2018.

The largest increases were in the $250,000 to $499,999 sales class, which increased 18 acres; and in the $1,000,000 and over sales class, which increased 21 acres on average from 2018.

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