Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

Ireland

Investors attributed to Ireland reported holding 786K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 1.66% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 436 holdings.

Acres (2024): 785,852
Share of foreign-held: 1.7%
Holdings: 436
Held as ownership: 88%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported Ireland holdings grew from 730K acres in 2010 to 786K in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

Year	Reported acres
2024	785,852
2023	783,379
2022	773,411
2021	759,732
2020	759,568
2019	759,263
2018	759,203
2017	758,428
2016	748,851
2015	746,690
2014	741,499
2013	726,019
2012	726,032
2011	726,703
2010	729,520

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Florida252,716 ac

Alabama217,465 ac

Georgia168,344 ac

Texas75,837 ac

South Carolina20,223 ac

Kansas11,798 ac

Mississippi7,249 ac

California6,668 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest670K

Cropland46K

Pasture49K

Other agricultural9K

Non-agricultural12K

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.