Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

Spain

Name: Spain — foreign-held US agricultural land
Creator: AI Analytics
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Investors attributed to Spain reported holding 360K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.76% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 383 holdings.

Acres (2024): 359,565
Share of foreign-held: 0.8%
Holdings: 383
Held as ownership: 9%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported Spain holdings grew from 206K acres in 2010 to 360K in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

Year	Reported acres
2024	359,565
2023	310,561
2022	301,867
2021	301,906
2020	301,906
2019	301,906
2018	284,977
2017	249,895
2016	241,117
2015	238,852
2014	238,852
2013	238,852
2012	224,441
2011	224,297
2010	206,318

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Illinois69,628 ac

Oklahoma42,498 ac

Texas42,432 ac

South Dakota40,582 ac

North Dakota36,535 ac

Iowa25,325 ac

Kansas20,618 ac

Pennsylvania18,742 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest31K

Cropland149K

Pasture149K

Other agricultural27K

Non-agricultural4K

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.