What is the total amount of cropland nationally?

Question

total amount of cropland in the United States

Answer 1

i think about the size of california in total

Answer 2

Below is a good statistics site with other countries to compare.

Answer 3

The United States has a total land area of nearly 2.3 billion acres. Major uses in 2002 were forest-use land, 651 million acres (28.8 percent); grassland pasture and range land, 587 million acres (25.9 percent); cropland, 442 million acres (19.5 percent); special uses (primarily parks and wildlife areas), 297 million acres (13.1 percent); miscellaneous other uses, 228 million acres (10.1 percent); and urban land, 60 million acres (2.6 percent). Some like to add grass or pasture to total crop land, so it depends on how you define cropland.

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