Eastern Montana, many of the operations are 10-20000 acres plus with some larger. It is a very unforgiving countryside, very much boom or bust many years. There is also quite a bit of reservation land that is leased out.
Once you get into ND most operations are quite a bit smaller. It takes about 2000 ac to support a family here. A bit more on the western side. 4-8000 is towards the norm. There are still the big timers that want to farm 2 counties, but many have had their wings clipped recently.
As Bob said, in ND only family corporations or individuals can own farm land. And very few own a majority of the land they farm.
Similar south through SD and north into Saskatchewan. Up into Canada, many of the big outfits are Hutterite colonies.
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