Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

Switzerland

Investors attributed to Switzerland reported holding 1.2M acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 2.57% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 1,153 holdings.

Acres (2024): 1,215,635
Share of foreign-held: 2.6%
Holdings: 1,153
Held as ownership: 96%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported Switzerland holdings grew from 648K acres in 2010 to 1.2M in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

Year	Reported acres
2024	1,215,635
2023	1,084,006
2022	1,033,442
2021	690,069
2020	682,166
2019	666,112
2018	664,274
2017	663,640
2016	663,137
2015	660,835
2014	660,537
2013	657,219
2012	654,608
2011	653,941
2010	648,066

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Texas187,635 ac

Mississippi132,108 ac

Alabama107,767 ac

Louisiana95,579 ac

Arkansas95,244 ac

Arizona88,486 ac

South Carolina71,518 ac

North Carolina54,841 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest658K

Cropland272K

Pasture169K

Other agricultural49K

Non-agricultural68K

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.