By Ryan Hanrahan
Successful Farming
Pro Farmer’s Spencer Langford reported that “the number of U.S. farms shrank by 15,000 in 2025, bringing the total to 1.865 million, USDA said (last week) in its Land in Farms report.”
“This continues a long-lasting trend of declining farm numbers. Analysis from the American Farm Bureau Federation noted that farm bankruptcies were also on the rise,” Langford reported. “The largest decline at the state-level was Texas, which lost 2,000 operations. No state saw an increase in farms, but multiple states did indicate no change from the prior year.”