According to the Agriculture Department’s 2017 Census of Agriculture, 95.4% of all farm producers are white. The department defines producers as “someone involved in making decisions for the farm,” thus leading more people to identify as such than in the previous census. Hispanic producers constitute 3% of all farmers, while 1.7% are American Indian or Alaska Native and 1.3% are Black. Asians are 0.6% of farmers; 0.1% are Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders.
Farm ownership also shows a similar preponderance of white farmers. White people own 98% of all private agricultural land, according to 2002 data from the department.