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Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

Germany

Investors attributed to Germany reported holding 2.8M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 5.86% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 3,731 holdings.

Acres (2024)
2,770,565
Share of foreign-held
5.9%
Holdings
3,731
Held as ownership
81%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported Germany holdings grew from 1.6M acres in 2010 to 2.8M in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

YearReported acres
20242,770,565
20232,496,768
20222,343,858
20212,269,292
20202,063,406
20192,059,598
20182,010,840
20171,902,340
20161,881,991
20151,853,374
20141,935,908
20131,866,155
20121,830,058
20111,733,690
20101,642,265

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Texas399,449 ac
Georgia289,608 ac
Arkansas251,041 ac
New Mexico198,476 ac
Florida143,804 ac
Colorado91,768 ac
Illinois85,150 ac
California84,138 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest1.3M
Cropland809K
Pasture550K
Other agricultural96K
Non-agricultural45K

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.