The total amount of farmland acres in North Carolina since 1997 has a decreasing trend line. A count of all farmland acreage in North Carolina is collected every 5 years by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Statistics Service. In 1997, there were 9,444,867 total acres of farmland in North Carolina. In 2002, there were 9,079,001 acres. In 2007, there were 8,474,671 acres. In 2012, there were 8,414,756 acres. In 2017, there were 8,430,522 acres. And in 2022, the last USDA Census year, there were a total of 8,128,136 acres of farmland in North Carolina.