Crop County Estimates 



Montana Wild Hay Acreage, Yield, and Production by County - 2002 



ALL IRRIGATED 



COUNTY 



& 

 DISTRICT 



Deer Lodge 



Flathead 



Granite 



Lake 



Lincoln 



Mineral 



Missoula 



Powell 



Ravalli 



Sanders 



Other 



NORTHWEST 



Blaine 



Chouteau 



Glacier 



Hill 



Liberty 



Phillips 



Pondera 



Teton 



Toole 



Other 



NORTH CENTRAL 



Daniels 



Dawson 



Garfield 



McCone 



Richland 



Roosevelt 



Sheridan 



Valley 



Other 



NORTHEAST 



Broadwater 



Cascade 



Fergus 



Golden Valley 



Judith Basin 



Lewis & Clark 



Meagher 



Musselshell 



Petroleum 



Wheatland 



Other 



CENTRAL 



Beaverhead 



Gallatin 



Jefferson 



Madison 



Silver Bow 



Other 



SOUTHWEST 



Big Horn 



Carbon 



Park 



Stillwater 



Sweetgrass 



Treasure 



Yellowstone 



Other 



SOUTH CENTRAL 



MONTANA 



31,000 



5.000 

 1,500 

 3.000 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 2,500 

 3,000 

 11,000 

 2,000 



35,000 

 4,000 

 2,000 

 1,500 

 5,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,000 

 2,000 



25,000 

 1,500 

 2,000 

 4,000 



2,500 



5,000 



11.500 



60,000 

 1,000 

 1,000 

 2.500 



3,000 



1,500 



1,000 



10,000 



2.0 

 1.2 

 1.1 

 0.8 

 0.9 

 1.7 

 0.8 

 1.7 

 1.7 

 1.6 



1.4 



1.8 

 0.9 

 0.5 

 0.8 

 1.0 

 0.8 

 1.6 

 1.4 



1.1 



1.9 

 1.6 

 0.9 



0.9 

 1.8 

 2.1 



1.8 



60,500 

 5,800 

 1,700 

 2.300 

 3,200 

 6,100 

 2,100 

 5,100 



18,600 

 3,100 



48,000 

 7,000 

 1,800 

 700 

 4,600 

 3,600 

 2,800 

 4,700 

 2.800 



28.000 

 2,800 

 3,100 

 3.700 



2,300 



9,000 



24,300 



107,500 

 1,100 

 2,200 

 4,000 



5.500 



600 



1,600 



15,000 



13 

 38 



30 

 23 

 12 

 34 

 15 

 4 

 24 



11 

 36 

 44 

 17 

 21 

 26 

 16 

 26 



26 

 24 

 20 



30 

 9 

 3 



43 

 32 

 18 



14 



45 



25,000 

 2,000 



1,500 

 10,000 



500 

 14.000 



1,000 

 3,000 

 4,000 



1.000 



3,500 

 11,000 



53,000 



1,000 

 2,000 



2,000 



1.000 

 6.000 



Yield Production 



Tons Tons 



2.0 3,000 



NON-IRRIGATED 



Harvested Yield Production 

 Acres Tons Tons 



1.000 



200,000 



1.6 



320,000 



125,000 



1.9 



242,000 



75,000 



12 



1.0 



1,200 



78,000 



Counties with less than 500 acres harvested or Individual operations with more than 60 percent of acres harvested are combined into "other" counties 

 to avoid disclosure of Individual information. Ranking Is based on total production per county. 



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