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U.S. farm-sector debt, year-end 2026 forecast

$605.1 billion

2026-12-31 · claim US-FARM-2026F · edition 2026-09-14-v1

Exact value
605,100,000,000 USD
Perimeter

USDA forecast for debt at year-end 2026, published September 3, 2026. A forecast is not an observed outcome.

What this measures
The USDA Economic Research Service forecast of farm-sector debt at year-end 2026, from the September 3, 2026 vintage.
What it does not measure
Measured debt on any date, a probability interval, or a figure that survives the next forecast vintage.
As published
605.1 USD billions (normalized ×1000000000 to reach the exact value above)
Caveat
A forecast of farm-sector debt at year-end 2026 from the September 3, 2026 vintage, not measured debt on any date. Show it with a visible forecast label and no invented probability interval; a later vintage supersedes it.
Display step
100,000,000 — the precision this figure is shown at
Review status
Recorded against the publisher's own cited location. The source's consolidation status below says whether that page was retrieved during consolidation or an earlier review was preserved.

Publisher

  • Farm-sector assets, debt, and wealth

    USDA ERS. September 3, 2026 vintage; $605.1bn forecast for year-end 2026.

    Year-end 2026 forecast; September 3, 2026 vintage. Status as of 2026-09-13.

    Retrieved again from the publisher on that date. The page is updated in place, so the vintage (the release date) matters as much as the link.

Cite this figure

U.S. farm-sector debt, year-end 2026 forecast, $605.1 billion, 2026-12-31. USDA ERS, Farm-sector assets, debt, and wealth, status as of 2026-09-13. Planet IOU, edition 2026-09-14-v1, https://planetiou.jonathanrreed.com/sources/US-FARM-2026F/

This claim is a dated observation, not a live figure. It is never updated in place: a newer reading is a new edition with its own page. See methodology for how amounts are normalized and corrections for anything that has changed.