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During the period of low profitability (1998-2002), operations with between 500 and 1,500 acres earned an average net farm income of $67 to $68 per acre, or more than $10 per acre more than farms with less than 500 acres.
land in farms, at 920.0 million acres, increased 100 thousand acres from 2009. The average farm size is 418 acres, unchanged from the previous year. Farm numbers and land in farms are broken down into five economic sales classes.