Zre/tat^lmenl n/ iJ'ood and Sii^ricuuure 



^Levet^ t/allonUau ZJOaimina, ^aver^menl Center 



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A took back out t/eaA'4 end pfiovid^^ ^yiiight ion. ^e iutuAz. 



Corribinzd in this publication oAc a ne-vieu) o^ thu activiXiu, o^ thJji 

 VcpoAtrmnt dixAinQ iiAcat yzoA 19S2, and oIao a 6tatu,ticaZ 6ammaAy o^ 

 {fOAm pfiodaction in MaMiachuieXti ^on. the. 19 SI cAop ycoA. 



Ca^h fizcdpt^ inom iaxm maAk2ting6 fio^o. ifiom $296,864,000 in 19S0 

 to a kigh oi $321 ,540 ,000 . Rcccipti weAe up on. held ittady in IS o^ thz 

 25 majon ioAm categonlu. Vnamatlc incn.ea^eA> woAz noted in cAanbenny, 

 dainy and maple pnoduction, though the adven^e impact ol inflation hoi not 

 been ^actoned into the^e i>tatU>tlcj> . 



Cnop pnoduction ^on 19S2 Milt 6unely be a^ected by the ieveAe nxUn^ 

 and flooding that inundated the 6tate dwiing June. A bnlght note will 

 moit likely be cnanbeAAy pnoduction, om all indications ane that toe MiJLt 

 •4ee the laAge^t cnop eveA in Mcw^ac^u^etti, which -ci again thii, yean, the 

 leading cnanbeAny pnoducing 6tate. 



The de.velopment o^ new mankets ion oun native agnA.cuttun.at pnoducti, 

 continued a6 a pnionity duning the past yean, as you witZ nead in oun 

 Vepantment.al annual nepont. You MilJt note, too, that thejie has been 

 iigniiicant pnogneA6 in oun eHonts to pnotect ioAmland acn.06S the state. 

 I hope that you u.iilt neview the chants and statlsticA in the section in 

 this Kgnicuttunat Pnesenvation Restriction Pnognam as weUL as the yeanZy 

 mponts inom alt oi oun. vanious divisions and oHices. Theln achievejnents 

 ane impnesiive. 



Ai, in past ueans, the i>tatls,ticat nepont in thi^ publication u)as 

 compiled by the Wew England Cnop and Livestock Reponling seAvice oi the 

 U.S. Vepantment oi Kgnicuttune. We ane gnateiul ion theln iine woAk and 

 ion all the contnibutions oi the staH in the Uas6achu6elts Vepantment 

 oi Food and Agnicuttune. 



SinceAeZy, 



fncdenic Winthnop, Jn. 

 Commissionen 



