2022 Census of Agriculture: Farms with Hispanic operators declined slightly in 2022

The number of farms with a Hispanic operator is about 84,000, a decline of about 2,800 farms since the last Census of Agriculture in 2017. A farm is defined as Hispanic-operated if at least one producer associated with it identifies as Spanish, Hispanic or Latino. Hispanic operators produced agricultural products on 37 million acres in 2022, which represents 4.2 percent of all U.S. land in farms. The total land in farms with Hispanic operators increased by 32 percent from 2002 to 2022. However, the average size for these farms has remained relatively stable at 441 acres in 2022, which is similar to the average farm size of 463 acres for all U.S. farms. For more details from the 2022 Census of Agriculture, see the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Census of Agriculture website. For more information on Hispanic farmers, see USDA, Economic Research Service’s publication An Overview of Farms Operated by Socially Disadvantaged, Women, and Limited Resource Farmers and Ranchers in the United States, February 2024.

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