By economic size group in Wisconsin, the two highest sales classes and one of the middle sales classes increased in number of farms from 2009, while the number of farms in the lowest sales class and those with sales of $100,000-$249,999 decreased.

In 2010 the number of farms in the highest sales class, with sales of $500,000 or more, increased by 300 farms, to 4,100. The number of farms in the second highest sales class, with sales of $250,000-$499,999, increased by 200 farms, to 5,700.

The third increase was by 400 farms in the $10,000-$99,999 sales class, to 20,900 farms. In 2010 there were 38,300 farms in the lowest sales class, a decrease of 500 from the previous year, while the number of farms in the $100,000-$249,999 sales class decreased by 400, to 9,000 farms.

The number of farms in the U.S. in 2010, at 2.20 million, was virtually unchanged from 2009. Total land in farms, at 920.0 million acres, increased 100 thousand acres from 2009. The average farm size in the U.S. was 418 acres, unchanged from the previous year.