- Texas farmland declined by more than 1.6 million acres with a loss of over 17,700 farms, according to the latest Census of Agriculture.
As of 2022, there were 125,417,325 acres of Texas land dedicated to farming and ranching compared to 127,036,184 five years ago.
Texas lost about 887 acres per day, according to ag census data. And the number of farms decreased from 248,416 to 230,662. It’s a…