North Dakota's farm marketings totaled $2.98 billion in 2001. Typically, North Dakota is the number one producer of hard spring wheat, durum wheat, sunflowers, barley, oats, flax, all dry edible beans, and pinto beans. In 2002, North Dakota led the nation in spring wheat, drum wheat, barley, dry edible beans, sunflowers, and was 2nd in the nation in overall wheat production. production.
The total number of farms has declined over the years as the average size of farming operations has increased. In 2002, the state had approximately 30,000 farms and ranches occupying 39.4 million acres (16 million hectares) and producing 216.6 million bushels of wheat, 57.0 million bushels of barley, 1.71 billion lb of sunflowers, 12.7 million bushels of oats, 10.6 hundredweight of dry edible beans, 114.4 million bushels of corn, 4.8 million tons of sugar beets, and 23.5 million hundredweight of potatoes. The average farm is 1,313 acres (531 hectares).