A Geographic Look at Farmland Rental Trends

In an earlier post, we looked at how producers’ share of rented and owned farmland varied by age. As one would expect, young producers rent a large proportion of their acres, while older producers own the majority of their farmland. A natural follow-up in our minds was to examine how the share of rented acres differs across states. Do some states or regions have more acres of rented farmland?

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