America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance: 2024 Edition

by Katherine Lim, Jonathan McFadden, Noah Miller, and Katherine Lacy

American farms represent a diverse set of business operations and farm operators. This annual report describes the characteristics of U.S. farms and ranches with the most recent data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Statistics for calendar year 2023 are presented using a farm classification developed by USDA, ERS to categorize farms into groups based on each farm’s annual gross cash farm income, the main occupation of the farm’s principal operator, and ownership (family versus nonfamily). This edition contains two new sections: (1) a section documenting farmers’ unpriced inventory held both on- and off-farm, and (2) a section outlining adoption rates for key precision agriculture technologies and the reasons provided by producers for their precision technology adoption decisions.

Keywords: Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), farm structure, farm household well-being, farm risk management, precision agriculture

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