Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Italy
Investors attributed to Italy reported holding 2.7M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 5.68% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 7,722 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 2,680,994
- Share of foreign-held
- 5.7%
- Holdings
- 7,722
- Held as ownership
- 5%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Italy holdings grew from 915K acres in 2010 to 2.7M in 2024, peaking at 2.8M in 2022. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2,680,994 |
| 2023 | 2,733,900 |
| 2022 | 2,769,965 |
| 2021 | 2,703,340 |
| 2020 | 2,702,871 |
| 2019 | 2,556,217 |
| 2018 | 2,346,273 |
| 2017 | 1,908,601 |
| 2016 | 1,545,850 |
| 2015 | 1,292,444 |
| 2014 | 1,396,634 |
| 2013 | 1,330,205 |
| 2012 | 1,207,760 |
| 2011 | 1,223,782 |
| 2010 | 914,967 |
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.