USDA’s Census of Agriculture said there are 28,299 farms in South Dakota. That’s down six percent from the 2017 Census. Land in farms totaled 42.3 million acres, down two percent from five years ago. The average size of farms in South Dakota was 1,495 acres, up four percent. The average age of South Dakota farmers and ranchers is 57.2 years, one year older than in the last report five years ago. Eleven percent of South Dakota’s farmers are age 34 or less.
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