Table 5

Estimation of the Total Impacts of Nonresident Owners

Applied Counties: Top 4% (27 Counties)^{^a}		2002	2012	Change (2002–2012)
Total acreage underutilized if	15% of the agricultural parcels owned by nonresidents, 5% to be owned by nonresidents (emerging second-home market; i.e., Columbia)	34,045	45,393	11,348
Total acreage underutilized if	65% of the agricultural parcels owned by nonresidents (saturated second-home market; i.e., Ulster)	147,527	<147,527	<0
Total acreage (USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service)	Land in production (harvesting field crops/hay/vegetables)	986,639	916,428	−70,211
	Total land in farms	2,269,543	2,236,128	−33,415

Note: Outcomes are lower bound estimations of total underutilized acreage land in farms in applicable counties if farmland is owned by nonresidents instead of farmers. The applicable counties are selected based on the ranking list in Appendix F. The decrease of total land in farms is closely related to farmland conversion, which is usually used to explain the decrease in agricultural production. The decrease of land in production incorporates farmland conversion and farmland underutilization.
↵a The baseline is the 2002 data from USDA NASS, at https://www.nass.usda.gov/.