Agriculture
Courtesy of the USDA Economic Research Service, the reports below display results from the latest inventory of major land usage
in the United States in 2002. All numbers below are per 1,000 acres of usage, and encompass the 2.3 billion total acres of
land in the U.S.
Land Type |
1,000 Acres |
Crop
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441,551 |
Pasture
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586,520 |
Forest
|
651,163 |
Special
|
296,808 |
Urban
|
59,584 |
Other
|
228,333 |
Land Usage Expressed as Total Percentage of Overall Usage
The results in the charts above represent total land usage expressed in 1,000 acres. The chart below displays the same data,
but expressed in total percentage of overall land usage.
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Ground vs Surface
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