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Foreign Ownership of U.S. Agricultural Land

Sources: USDA AFIDA 2024 Holdings (as of 12/31/2024); U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line county boundaries.

County land area (ALAND) from TIGER/Line, excludes water bodies.

Farm acres = crop + pasture + other agriculture.

Contains all parcels that indicate foreign citizenship and excludes Country Code 998 (No Foreign Investor Listed) and 999 (No Predominant Country).

Square area divided by county area is the share of that county held. Counties are drawn in an Albers equal-area projection.

Produced by: TIAA Center for Farmland Research, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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