Farm operations
500
Avg 2,237 ac / farm
Agricultural and commodity intelligence for Dunn County. Ranked #43 of 53 counties in North Dakota.
USDA NASS · 2022 Census of Agriculture
Dunn County received $12.32 in Census government payments per agricultural acre, 0.4× the North Dakota county median of $28.16.
According to the USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture.
Payments per acre use the same NASS county table for receipts and acreage. Census county totals are not a roll-up of the USDA ERS state payment series.
According to the 2022 USDA NASS Census of Agriculture, Dunn County, North Dakota is a MIXED county with federal farm payments per acre that stamp HEAVY; commodity sales sit near state median and it shows high federal dependence.
Farm operations
500
Avg 2,237 ac / farm
Commodity sales
$127.6M
0.65× state median -- Near state median
Federal payments
$13.8M
10.8% of sales -- High federal dependence
Net farm income
$34.3M
2022 cash income -- Below-typical net income
Farm economy grade: C -- Dunn County's net farm income sits at the 60th percentile among 3,046 NASS-reporting counties nationally (2022 Census). Percentile-benchmarked, not a same-state comparison like the tier label above.
Dunn County, North Dakota reads as a MIXED county with HEAVY federal payment intensity. In the NASS Census vocabulary this portal uses, cropland is 25% to 50% of agricultural land with the balance in pasture, range, woodland or farmsteads, so row-crop and livestock-side programs are both in play; payments per agricultural acre fall in the second-highest national quintile, $11.30 to $18.39 an acre, heavy federal support relative to the acreage.
The state comparisons on this page use the 53 of 53 North Dakota counties with published commodity sales, averaging the two central values when the count is even. Payments per acre use the 53 counties that report both receipts and acreage, and net-income peers are the 53 that reported a profit.
Pair the payment peers below before treating any single county as representative of North Dakota.
Nearest NASS federal-payment peers and $/acre poles for Dunn (HEAVY · MIXED), replacing the old fixed Related and same-state alphabetical strip.
HEAVY MIXED
$13.8M federal receipts is higher by $17K than Dunn; land stamp MIXED vs MIXED.
$13.8M federal receipts is higher by $25K than Dunn; land stamp CROP-LED vs MIXED.
$13.7M federal receipts is lower by $31K than Dunn; land stamp CROP-HEAVY vs MIXED.
$13.8M federal receipts is higher by $53K than Dunn; land stamp CROP-LED vs MIXED.
Corson sits near Dunn on payments-per-acre ($12.28) while total receipts differ.
Umatilla sits near Dunn on payments-per-acre ($12.12) while total receipts differ.
Dunn stamps HEAVY · MIXED inside North Dakota's NASS county table, open the state ERS payment stack next.
Open the national ranking of U.S. counties by NASS federal farm program payments to see the counties around Dunn under the HEAVY intensity band.
What to do with this
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County figures (2022 NASS Census of Agriculture) are a separate population from USDA ERS state and national payment series and must not be summed together.
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service 2022 Census of Agriculture · 2022
Dollar values reflect calendar year 2022 farm operations data.
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Intensity stamp HEAVY · land stamp MIXED (NASS payments-per-acre / cropland share bands).
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County farm figures on this page are rendered from the USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture, no number is typed in by an editor. Census county totals are not a roll-up of the USDA ERS state payment series. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.