Tennessee Agri-industry Brief: Tennessee County-level Producers' Average Age

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) Census of Agriculture is published every five years and provides data at the U.S., state, and county levels. Online agriculture census versions go as far back as 1840 (USDA/NASS, 2024). One metric tracked is the change in the average age of agricultural producers. This information is provided at the county level for Tennessee for the Census reporting periods 2017 to 2022, along with the percentage change in average age for that timeframe (Figure 1 and Table 1).