Agriculture is the leading industry in North Dakota.
In 2024, ND ranked first in 13 listed production categories, including wheat, canola, flaxseed, sunflower, and honey. Subcategories overlap.
Source: 2025 ND Annual Bulletin, pp. 11-14, 25. Values retain the publication vintage.
Total crop value
$9.70B
-7.3% from 2023
Number of farms
24,800
Average size: 1,552 acres
Land in farms
38.5M
69,001 sq. miles total land area
National #1 rankings
13
Includes overlapping crop subcategories
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NORTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURE
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The 77 comparisons audited on November 8, 2026 are explained below. For 13 index observations, a revision is documented but the latest amount is supported only by Quick Stats, not independently by the archived release. These compare two versions of the same historical observation. They are not changes from one year to the next. Conclusions apply only to the exact values reviewed.
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Download comparison and provenanceNorth Dakota · 2025 Annual Bulletin snapshot. Explore named wheat varieties, crop types, market classes and biotech traits. Years and measures follow the published tables; these values do not change with live API revisions.
2025 Report · Complete published tables for 2021–2025. Historical values before 2021 are not supplied by these tables. Shares are percent of planted acreage; rounded totals are not normalized.
History uses state shares from the same 2025 publication. District history is not published.
Source: 2025 ND Annual Bulletin, pp. 89-96. Inventory dates and production years differ; each KPI shows its reference year. The report prints an incorrect 2022 annual average milk-cow count; validated evidence is available in Explore & compare.
All cattle
1,680K
870K beef cows
Honey production
36.3M
#1 in US · 27% of nation
Milk cows
9,500
25 licensed dairy herds
Hogs
150K
Pig crop: 990K
Sheep
62K
370K pounds wool (2024)
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USDA Quick Stats sourceCurrent comparisons cover cattle, milk, honey, hogs, sheep and wool measures listed above. Inventory counts, annual averages and wool fleece weights remain separate series.
Source: 2025 ND Annual Bulletin. Prices use crop years 2020-2024 and retain the publication estimates; indexes are US-level (2011=100). The printed 2024 flaxseed price contains a documented report error; Explore & compare explains it with USDA release evidence.
Total farm expenses
$9.16B
Up from $7.06B in 2017
Average farm value
$3.29M
$2,139 per acre
Non-irrigated cropland rent
$81.50
Pasture: $21.50 per acre
Total ag sold
$12.14B
$484,235 per farm
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Differences compare the same measure, year, reference period, geography and units. Newer years have no report counterpart. A difference is not a confirmed USDA revision without supporting release evidence. Suppressed or missing values are never zero; percentages are omitted when the report value is zero.
Current views use a validated local USDA snapshot. Observation check time, snapshot publication time and USDA load time are different; none alone proves a revision.
USDA Quick Stats sourceCurrent comparisons include crop prices, cash rents, farms by economic sales class, Census sales and production expenses, and national monthly indexes. Index comparisons hold the calendar month fixed; Census observations retain their five-year cycle.
Source: 2025 ND Annual Bulletin, pp. 19-20. Weather observations: 2024; climate baseline: 1981-2010. Planting and harvest windows are 20-year averages.
Thin lines: usual window. Thick lines: most active period. Winter wheat planting belongs to the prior year. Spring wheat's most-active harvest end is unclear in the source and is not inferred.
Download calendar (CSV)Annual is reproduced as printed in the bulletin; the precipitation Annual column is not a sum of the monthly values.
Download weather table (CSV)Source: 2025 ND Annual Bulletin. Crop tables: 2023–2024, with explicit gaps and selected five-year benchmarks. Census profiles: 2022; population: 2024; cattle: January 1, 2025 (p. 90).
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County shares use the published state total, not the sum of visible counties. Yield is compared with the published state yield; it is never summed or presented as a share. Rankings use competition ranks (ties share a rank) among numeric county observations; suppressed counties may change the true statewide ordering.
Combined Counties stays in this source table as an aggregate. It is never allocated back to individual counties or included in county rankings. Five-year averages are separate benchmarks and need not add to the state average.
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