Table 47. Farms by Concentration of Market Value of Agricultural Products Sold: 1987 



[For meaning ot abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text ) 



Characteristics 



Fewest number of farms accounting fof- 



10 percent of sales 25 percent of sales 50 percent of sales 75 percent of sales 



Farms number. _ 



percent.. 



Land in farms acres.. 



Average size of farm acres.. 



Value of land and buildings^ farms.. 



$1.000.. 



Average per farm dollars.. 



Average per acre dollars.. 



Estimated marftet value of all machinery and equipment.. $1.000.. 



percent.. 



Land in farms according to use; 



Total cropland acres.. 



Harvested cropland acres.. 



Pastureland, excluding woodland pastured acres.. 



fvlarket value of agncultural products sold $1.000.. 



Average per farm dollars.. 



Grains farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Cotton and cottonseed farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Tobacco farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Hay, silage, and field seeds farms.. 



$1.000.. 



Vegetables, sweet corn, and melon farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Fruits, nuts, and berries farms.. 



$1,000.. 

 Nursery and greenhouse crops farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Other crops farms.. 



$1,000.. 



Poultry and poultry products farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Dairy products farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Cattle and calves farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Hogs and pigs farms.. 



$1.000.. 



Sheep, lambs, and wool farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Other livestocl^ and livestock products (see text) ___ farms.. 



$1.000.. 



Total farm production expenses' farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Selected farm production expenses'; 

 Livestock and poultry purchased farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Feed for livestock and poultry farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Commercial fertilizer farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Agricultural chemicals farms.. 



$1.000.. 



Petroleum products farms.. 



$1.000.. 

 Electncity farms.. 



$1,000.- 

 Hired farm labor farms.- 



$1,000.- 

 Interest _ farms.- 



$1,000.. 



Payments from government programs farms-- 



$1,000-. 



Inventory of selected livestock; 



Cattle and calves farms.. 



number.- 



Milk cows farms.. 



number.. 



Hogs and pigs farms — 



numljer.. 



43 318 



100.0 



145 753 



43 316 



7 284 055 



168 161 



800 



6 919 



98 192 



1 811 



123 137 



21 



567 



5 102 



17 217 



1 363 



19 395 



1 312 

 8 138 



546 



103 596 



2 938 

 127 751 



3 663 

 950 942 



540 

 69 213 

 29 320 

 304 469 

 3 220 

 61 869 



14 643 

 290 518 



27 950 

 570 084 

 27 141 

 86 491 

 17 676 

 64 530 



40 672 

 64 535 

 21 263 

 21 078 



15 729 

 123 018 



17 015 

 81 110 



29 844 

 1 450 416 

 1 336 

 45 994 

 3 585 

 353 062 



29 366 



1 087 630 



2 651 



259 

 278 362 



1 074 757 

 1 058 



4 368 

 26 



15 091 



(D) 



9 



5 282 



125 084 



136 



5 283 



255 

 7 034 



253 

 5 789 



241 

 47 020 



206 

 9 228 



1 362 

 912 933 

 670 289 



1 135 

 197 942 



1 191 

 333 160 



1 342 

 17 392 

 1 332 

 9 945 

 1 202 

 77 130 

 1 156 

 23 184 



'Data are based on a sample of farms. 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE -STATE DATA 



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