Ag Facts

“The United States’ land area totals nearly 2.3 billion acres.

• 52 % = agricultural purposes accounted for 52 percent of total U.S. land,
• 35 % = grazing area comprised 35 % of the total and two-thirds of all agricultural land.
• 28.8 % = forest-use land 651 million acres
• 25.9 % = grassland pasture and range, 587 million acres
• 19.5 % = cropland, 442 million acres
• 13.1 % = special uses, 297 million acres
• 10.1 % = miscellaneous other uses, 228 million acres
• 2.6 % = urban land, 60 million
• 4.2 % nonurban land-use categories, about 94 million acres”

Source: Major Uses of Land in the U.S.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/EIB14/eib14_reportsummary.pdf