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Paper presents basic tendencies in the field of number of farms and their area structure in the selected regions of EU (zachodniopomorskie voivodeship, Baden-Württemberg (The Great Stuttgart Region)). Author argues that total number of farms is still decreasing, agricultural area of farms is still decreasing but average size of farm is increasing. Similar tendencies are in Poland and in Germany. Including ESU into analysis allow better comparison of economic power of agricultural farms between various EU countries.