Agricultural land or farmland can include cropland, rangeland, pastureland, forestland and other rural land Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program are included in the category "other rural land " Between 1982 and 1992, cropland acreage nationally decreased by 39 million acres (most went into the CRP), rangeland by 10 million acres and pasture land by 6 million acres The total acreage of non-federal rural land decreased from 1,408,936,000 acres in 1982, to 1,390,774,000 acres in 1992 Of that, 334 million acres were prime farmland [source: USDA-SCS 1992 NRI]
A category of land for zoning or other legal purposes, denoting property used for agricultural purposes