Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Canada
Investors attributed to Canada reported holding 16.1M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 34.15% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 17,790 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 16,131,408
- Share of foreign-held
- 34.1%
- Holdings
- 17,790
- Held as ownership
- 57%
Flagged holdings. The register flags 1 holding(s) attributed to Canada as carrying a secondary interest in a country of concern — see the attribution-gap section.
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Canada holdings grew from 7.2M acres in 2010 to 16.1M in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 16,131,408 |
| 2023 | 15,350,747 |
| 2022 | 14,278,792 |
| 2021 | 12,845,210 |
| 2020 | 12,361,087 |
| 2019 | 10,519,144 |
| 2018 | 8,486,583 |
| 2017 | 7,467,902 |
| 2016 | 7,271,590 |
| 2015 | 6,873,356 |
| 2014 | 6,870,150 |
| 2013 | 6,766,393 |
| 2012 | 7,277,149 |
| 2011 | 7,250,834 |
| 2010 | 7,205,840 |
Where, and what kind of land
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Land use (acres)
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.