Table 42. Crops Harvested and Value of Production: 1987 and 1982 



[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 



Crop 



Quantity 



Value of 



production^ 



($1,000) 



Farms 



Quantity 



Value of 



production' 



($1,000) 



Harvested cropland 



Corn for gram or seed (busfiels) 



Corn for silage or green chop or cut for dry fodder, hogged or 



grazed 



Sorghum for gram or seed (bushels) 



Sorghum for silage or green chop, cut for dry forage or hay, or 



hogged or grazed 



Wheat tor gram (bushels) 



Barley for gram (bushels) --- 



Oats for gram (bushels) - 



Rye for grain (bushels) 



Rice (cwt) 



Flaxseed (bushels) 



Sunflower seed (pounds) 



Soybeans for beans (bushels) 



Dry edible beans, excluding dry limas (cwl) 



Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 



Cotton (bales) 



Tobacco (pounds) 



Insh potatoes (cwt) 



Sweetpotatoes (bushels) 



Pineapples harvested (tons) 



Sugar beets for sugar (tons) 



Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 



Hay — alfalfa, other tame, small grain, wild, grass silage, green chop, 



etc (see text) (tons, dry) 



Vegetables harvested for sale (see text) _ 



Land m orchards 



Bernes harvested tor sale - 



Nursery and greenhouse crops, mushrooms, and sod grown for sale 



(see text) 



Other crops 



'Data are estimated; see text. 



884 



21 



114 

 115 

 28 



1 762 

 39 

 78 



526 067 

 1 260 



15 052 



9 150 



851 



479 346 



1 900 



485 



(D) 



949 

 14 002 



(X) 

 151 128 



(X) 



(X) 



1 096 511 



725 196 



48 862 



1 223 895 

 (X) 

 (X) 



(X) 



(X) 

 (X) 



119 988 

 332 



2 412 



1 414 



83 



90 712 



4 067 



65 



2 511 

 10 105 



895 

 3 



162 



193 



47 



4 



1 777 

 34 

 69 



24 

 (NA) 



605 082 

 11 



20 536 



28 490 



1 985 



205 



596 

 13 804 



528 682 



1 409 



255 



(D) 



241 

 (NA) 



(X) 

 (D) 



(X) 



(X) 



1 386 182 



2 079 755 

 129 299 



(D) 



803 

 4 608 250 



254 889 

 (X) 

 (X) 



(X) 



4 574 



4 887 



168 



8 



285 

 13 825 



94 408 



1 799 



44 



1 170 

 9 674 



Table 43. Specified Crops Harvested— Yield Per Acre Irrigated and Nonirrigated: 1987 



[For meaning of abbreviations and sy.iibols, see introductory text] 



Crop 



Entire crop irrigated 



Farms 



Average 



yield per 



acre 



Pan of crop irrigated 



Acres 

 irrigated 



Acres not 

 irngated 



Average 



yield per 



acre 



None of crop irrigated 



Average 



yield per 



acre 



Corn for gram or seed (bushels) 



Com for silage or green chop (tons, green) 



Sorghum for grain or seed (bushels) 



Vi/heat for gram (bushels) 



Oats for gram (bushels) 



Barley for gram (bushels) 



Rice (cvrt) 



Soybeans for beans (bushels) 



Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 



Dry edible beans, excluding dry limas (cwt) 



Cotton (bales) 



Tobacco (pounds) 



Irish potatoes (cwt) 



Sugar beets for sugar (tons) _. 



Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 



Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 



Small gram hay (tons, dry) _ 



Tame hay other than alfalfa, small grain, and wild hay {see text) 



(tons, dry) 



Wild hay (tons, dry) 



Grass silage, haylage, and green chop hay (tons, green) 



Alfalfa seed (pounds) 



Vegetables harvested for sale (see text) , 



Land in orchards 



Strawberries harvested for sale (pounds) 



114 

 28 



1 435 

 220 



276 



288 



85 



38 

 39 

 78 



1 260 

 1 936 



15 052 

 851 



241 120 

 12 293 



(D) 



145 514 



12 768 



10 331 



1 900 



485 



119.9 

 17.6 



72.8 

 57.4 



3,7 

 2,4 



(D) 

 1.1 

 7.7 



592.6 

 (X) 

 (X) 



(D) 



(X) 

 (X) 



(D) 



(X) 

 (X) 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE -STATE DATA 



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