Table 1. County Summary Highlights: 1987-Con. 



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



Farms number,. 



Land in farms acres.. 



Avorage size of farm acres.. 



Value of land and buildings^: 



Average per farm _ dollars— 



Average per acre dollars.. 



Estimated market value of all machinery and 

 equipment'; 



Average per farm .................dollars.. 



Farms by size: 



1 to 9 acres 



10 to 49 acres 



50 to 179 acres _ - — 



180 to 499 acres - - 



500 to 999 acres 



1,000 acres or more 



Total cropland farms.. 



acres.. 

 Harvested cropland (arms.. 



acres.. 

 Irrigated land- farms.. 



acres. . 



Market value of agricultural products sold $1,000.. 



Average per farm dollars.. 



Crops. including nursery and greenhouse 



crops $1,000.. 



Livestock, poultry, and their products $1,000.. 



Farms by value o( sales: 



Less than $2.500 



$2,500 to $4.999 



$5,000 to $9.999 



$10,000 to $24,999 _ 



$25,000 to $49,999 



$50,000 to $99,999 



$100,000 or more _ 



Operators by principal occupation: 



Farming 



Other 



Operators by days worked off famn: 



Any - 



200 days or more 



Average age of oparator _. ..__ ..years.. 



Total farm production expenses' $1.000.. 



Average per farm dollars.. 



Livestock and poultry: 



Cattle and calves inventory farms.. 



number.. 



Beef cows farms.. 



number.. 



Milk cows famis-. 



number.. 



Cattle and calves sold farms.. 



number.. 



Hogs and pigs inventory farms.. 



number.. 

 Hogs and pigs sold farms.. 



number.. 

 Sheep and lambs inventory... farms.. 



number.. 

 Chickens 3 months old or older inventory farms., 



number.. 

 Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold farms., 



number.. 



Selected crops harvested: 



Corn for grain or seed farms., 



bushels. 



Wheat for grain farms. 



acres - 

 bushels. 



Tobacco farms. 



pounds. 



Soybeans for beans farms. 



acres. 



bushels. 



Peanuts for nuts. (arms. 



acres, 

 pounds. 



Hay -alfalfa, other tame, small grain, wild. 



grass silage, green chop, etc. (see text) farms. 



acres- 

 tons. dry. 



59 344 

 1 340 

 21 179 



870 

 25 272 



654 

 11 533 



292 



1 593 



116 112 



1 119 



2 101 

 3 516 529 



812 

 17 310 

 26 929 



391 



14 515 



49 



2 381 



521 



20 071 



69 

 4 783 



364 



42 835 



332 



23 441 



36 669 



362 



13 815 



225 

 9 817 



206 

 5 687 



200 



2 345 



4 205 833 



226 



8 100 

 10 962 



347 

 31 230 



284 

 10 592 



5 801 



68 



4 372 



See footnotes at end of table 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE -COUNTY DATA 



VIRGINIA 147 



