Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

Brazil

Investors attributed to Brazil reported holding 125K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.26% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 115 holdings.

Acres (2024)
124,642
Share of foreign-held
0.3%
Holdings
115
Held as ownership
26%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported Brazil holdings grew from 27K acres in 2010 to 125K in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

YearReported acres
2024124,642
202329,633
202229,633
202129,888
202029,820
201929,820
201829,544
201729,570
201629,570
201529,570
201429,570
201329,570
201229,297
201127,067
201026,939

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Texas103,408 ac
Illinois9,722 ac
Oklahoma4,939 ac
Kentucky2,559 ac
Colorado1,890 ac
Florida840 ac
South Carolina346 ac
Alabama244 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest226
Cropland41K
Pasture79K
Other agricultural4K
Non-agricultural630

Aggregated from the USDA FSA AFIDA detailed holdings files (public domain) — see the full dataset, methodology, and the register's documented defects at Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland. Country is the reported first-tier investor, not a verified ultimate parent. Aggregate-level only; no record-level owner names. Keyless JSON for all countries: /foreign-farmland/index.json. CC0.