Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Panama
Investors attributed to Panama reported holding 160K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.34% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 215 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 160,415
- Share of foreign-held
- 0.3%
- Holdings
- 215
- Held as ownership
- 97%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Panama holdings grew from 159K acres in 2010 to 160K in 2024, peaking at 160K in 2017. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 160,415 |
| 2023 | 160,415 |
| 2022 | 160,415 |
| 2021 | 160,415 |
| 2020 | 160,415 |
| 2019 | 160,415 |
| 2018 | 160,415 |
| 2017 | 160,415 |
| 2016 | 160,187 |
| 2015 | 160,187 |
| 2014 | 160,289 |
| 2013 | 160,289 |
| 2012 | 159,554 |
| 2011 | 159,338 |
| 2010 | 159,338 |
Where, and what kind of land
Largest states
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.