Table 3. Farm Production Expenses: 1987 and 1982 



(Data are based on a sample of farms. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text) 



Total farm production expenses farms. 



$1,000, 

 Average per farm dollars, 



Livestock and poultry purcfiased farms, 



$1,000, 



Contract latwr farms, 



$1,000, 



"$i,ooo! 



Customwork, macfiine fiire. and rental of 

 mactiinery and equipment^ farms. 



Interest paid= farms, 



$1,000, 



Interest paid on debt 

 Secured by real estate farms, 



$1,000, 

 Not secured by real estate farms. 



$1,000. 



Cash rent farms. 



$1,000. 

 Property taxes paid farms. 



$1 .000. 

 All other farm production expenses . 



$1,000. 



9 865 



5 857 



6 889 

 12 827 

 18 739 



5 232 



6 435 

 6 421 

 9 200 

 3 268 



3 220 



4 252 



5 401 



2 753 

 2 826 

 15 455 



18 511 



11 312 

 1 445 

 4 143 



1 287 

 3 845 

 6 064 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE-COUNTY DATA 



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