A scale asymmetry is endemic to farming across the country, including New England: a small number of large farms account for the majority of sales, while a large number of small farms account for a small percentage of sales. In 2022, 25.3% of New England farms accounted for 0.04% of regional agricultural sales, while 3.8% of farms accounted for 74.3% of sales. These 1,172 large farms had sales of over $500,000 per farm. This pattern was evident in each New England state. For example, 2.4% (184) of farms in Connecticut accounted for 82.5% ($580,713,000) of sales.
Number of Farms and Value of Sales by Sales Class, 2022
Net Cash Farm Income, 2022
New England Farmer Age Demographics, 2022
Note About Connecticut Maps: Although Connecticut has not had county governments since 1960, county boundaries have historically been used to depict data. For example, all USDA Census of Agriculture data for Connecticut is collected at a county-level. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau shifted to using Connecticut's nine planning regions as county equivalent geographic units for data collection. This has presented a challenge for depicting data for Connecticut's planning regions in Tableau. This mapping challenge has not been resolved yet, but when a solution is available, we will update Connecticut maps.
