Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier

New Zealand

Investors attributed to New Zealand reported holding 112K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.24% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 93 holdings.

Acres (2024)
112,476
Share of foreign-held
0.2%
Holdings
93
Held as ownership
99%

Fifteen-year trend

Reported New Zealand holdings grew from 83K acres in 2010 to 112K in 2024. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.

YearReported acres
2024112,476
202384,253
202284,532
202184,648
202084,648
201984,648
201884,648
201784,532
201683,374
201583,374
201483,380
201383,380
201283,380
201183,380
201083,166

Where, and what kind of land

Largest states

Hawaii46,678 ac
Missouri18,181 ac
Texas17,576 ac
Georgia10,994 ac
Mississippi10,986 ac
Alabama2,251 ac
Virginia1,223 ac
Maine963 ac

Land use (acres)

Forest30K
Cropland7K
Pasture72K
Other agricultural2K
Non-agricultural1K

Aggregated from the USDA FSA AFIDA detailed holdings files (public domain) — see the full dataset, methodology, and the register's documented defects at Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland. Country is the reported first-tier investor, not a verified ultimate parent. Aggregate-level only; no record-level owner names. Keyless JSON for all countries: /foreign-farmland/index.json. CC0.