Lawn is a crop: farms grow grass and sell it in rolls, called sod. Which states harvest the most? Tap them most-to-least.
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Among the states USDA lists, the order is…
Texas! A sod farm's harvest is the ground itself: a machine slices under the grass and lifts the plants, their roots and a thin layer of soil, and the pieces are rolled up like carpet and delivered as an instant lawn. Texas harvests about 1 acre in every 5 of America's sod — about 1.7× as many acres as Florida, the next state on USDA's list. Then look for Rhode Island: the smallest state of all harvests more than 3× as many sod acres as Pennsylvania, a state with over 40× as much land. Growing lawn is not about being big.
📚 BackgroundMost farms sell what grows on top of the field. A sod farm sells the field itself: a machine slices under the grass and lifts the plants, their roots and a thin layer of soil, which are rolled or stacked and delivered as an instant lawn. Sod is alive and has no soil left around it to hold water, so it is laid down and watered as soon as possible after cutting. Texas harvests the most: about 43,700 acres — roughly 33,000 football fields, counting the end zones (a football field is about 1.3 acres). And the smallest state of all, Rhode Island, harvests more sod than Pennsylvania, a state with more than 40 times as much land.(USDA NASS Quick Stats)↗ (opens in a new tab)
Note: acres of sod harvested in the open in 2024, from USDA's Census of Horticultural Specialties — the count of the country's greenhouse, nursery and sod farms, taken every five years. USDA NASS. USDA published a sod figure for 35 states; where printing a state’s number would give away information about individual farms, the number is withheld. Texas's own figure is bigger than every withheld state added together, so it really is the national #1 — but after that, this is the order among the states USDA lists, not the national order.
USDA published a sod figure for 35 states; where printing a state’s number would give away information about individual farms, the number is withheld. Texas's own figure is bigger than every withheld state added together, so it really is the national #1 — but after that, this is the order among the states USDA lists, not the national order.
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (2024 (Census of Horticultural Specialties))
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Data as of: 2024 (Census of Horticultural Specialties)
USDA NASS Quick Stats: SOD, IN THE OPEN - ACRES HARVESTED, 2024 Census of Horticultural Specialties, by state↗ (opens in a new tab) (2026-08-10) — Published values only (the committed raw file holds the API response verbatim). USDA published a sod figure for 35 states; where printing a state’s number would give away information about individual farms, the value is withheld, so this is an honest partial ranking. The champion's own figure is larger than every withheld state added together, so the #1 holds nationally — a check this site re-runs on every build.
↳ In Quick Stats, pick SOD / SOD, IN THE OPEN - ACRES HARVESTED, Census year 2024, Total domain, and compare states.