Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Netherlands
Investors attributed to Netherlands reported holding 4.7M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 9.95% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 2,561 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 4,699,916
- Share of foreign-held
- 9.9%
- Holdings
- 2,561
- Held as ownership
- 88%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Netherlands holdings declined from 4.8M acres in 2010 to 4.7M in 2024, peaking at 5.4M in 2022. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4,699,916 |
| 2023 | 5,197,940 |
| 2022 | 5,436,363 |
| 2021 | 4,875,034 |
| 2020 | 4,944,700 |
| 2019 | 4,945,250 |
| 2018 | 4,937,967 |
| 2017 | 4,941,181 |
| 2016 | 4,950,394 |
| 2015 | 4,854,593 |
| 2014 | 4,870,680 |
| 2013 | 4,891,697 |
| 2012 | 4,898,385 |
| 2011 | 4,878,596 |
| 2010 | 4,839,943 |
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.