Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
France
Investors attributed to France reported holding 1.4M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 2.96% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 1,952 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 1,398,610
- Share of foreign-held
- 3.0%
- Holdings
- 1,952
- Held as ownership
- 26%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported France holdings grew from 778K acres in 2010 to 1.4M in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,398,610 |
| 2023 | 1,385,185 |
| 2022 | 1,342,052 |
| 2021 | 1,315,748 |
| 2020 | 1,239,739 |
| 2019 | 1,239,123 |
| 2018 | 1,091,307 |
| 2017 | 1,090,732 |
| 2016 | 1,087,409 |
| 2015 | 1,084,836 |
| 2014 | 1,038,320 |
| 2013 | 1,015,440 |
| 2012 | 1,044,409 |
| 2011 | 1,038,025 |
| 2010 | 777,780 |
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.