Agriculture Census Information

The following table depicts various data including, total number of farms, farm size, farm value, crops harvested, etc. for Kankakee County. This data was taken from the 2017 Agriculture Census, performed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). For more detailed information visit the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) website.

Agriculture Data

Here are some of the numbers published in the 2017 Agriculture Census Profile.

Category	Number
Farms (number)	756
Land in farms (acres)	312,904
Land in farms - average. size (acres)	414
Farms by size - 1 to 9 acres	105
Farms by size - 10 to 49 acres	172
Farms by size - 50 to 179 acre	159
Farms by size - 180 to 499 acres	145
Farms by size - 500 to 999	82
Farms by size - 1,000 acres or more	93
Total cropland (farms)	96%
Total cropland (acres)	333,821
Total cropland - harvested cropland (farms)	636
Total cropland - harvested cropland (acres)	326,000
Irrigated land (farms)	6%
Irrigated land (acres)	18,404
Market value of agricultural products sold - average per farm (dollars)	292,508
Market value of agricultural products sold - crops ($1,000)	201,805
Farms by value of sales - less than $2,500	159
Farms by value of sales - $2,500 to $4,999	32
Farms by value of sales - $5,000 to $9,999	50
Farms by value of sales - $10,000 to $24,999	69
Farms by value of sales - $25,000 to $49,999	55
Farms by value of sales - $50,000 to $99,999	76
Farms by value of sales - $100,000 or more	315