Foreign US landownership shows slight decrease.Foreign individuals and corporations owned 14.1 million acres of US agricultural land at the end of 1994, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest update by the USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. . The 14.1-million-acre total is down about 4 percent from 1993, but it still represents about 1 percent of all privately owned US farm and forest land. The foreign-owned acreage is divided into forest land, 47 percent; crop-land 18 percent; and pasture pasture, land used for grazing livestock. Land unsuited for cultivation, e.g., hilly or stony land, may be used as pasture. Tilled land and meadow may be pastured after the crops are removed. or other use, 35 percent. Maine, with 2.1 million foreign-owned agricultural acres, had the largest US state total. This represented 11 percent of the state's privately owned agricultural land and 15 percent of all reported foreign-owned land nationwide. Texas had 1.2 million acres of foreign-owned agricultural land. Other states with more than .5 million acres of foreign-owned agricultural land were: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). and Oregon. The largest and smallest states had the distinction of being the only states with under 100 acres of foreign-owned agricultural land - Alaska had 75 acres and Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. had 17 acres. |
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