Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Belgium
Investors attributed to Belgium reported holding 359K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.76% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 446 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 358,949
- Share of foreign-held
- 0.8%
- Holdings
- 446
- Held as ownership
- 93%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Belgium holdings grew from 160K acres in 2010 to 359K in 2024, peaking at 359K in 2022. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 358,949 |
| 2023 | 358,949 |
| 2022 | 358,949 |
| 2021 | 356,635 |
| 2020 | 355,995 |
| 2019 | 355,995 |
| 2018 | 355,725 |
| 2017 | 244,075 |
| 2016 | 241,328 |
| 2015 | 241,254 |
| 2014 | 240,833 |
| 2013 | 238,802 |
| 2012 | 238,414 |
| 2011 | 237,761 |
| 2010 | 159,890 |
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.