Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Portugal
Investors attributed to Portugal reported holding 1.2M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 2.51% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 949 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 1,187,429
- Share of foreign-held
- 2.5%
- Holdings
- 949
- Held as ownership
- 2%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Portugal holdings grew from 858K acres in 2010 to 1.2M in 2024, peaking at 1.5M in 2019. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,187,429 |
| 2023 | 1,246,387 |
| 2022 | 1,408,492 |
| 2021 | 1,482,785 |
| 2020 | 1,469,895 |
| 2019 | 1,492,017 |
| 2018 | 1,452,587 |
| 2017 | 1,374,837 |
| 2016 | 1,335,808 |
| 2015 | 1,341,726 |
| 2014 | 1,381,967 |
| 2013 | 1,399,080 |
| 2012 | 1,259,593 |
| 2011 | 1,254,211 |
| 2010 | 858,358 |
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.