Table 34. Other Animals and Animal Products - Inventory: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
2012 
2007 
Item 
2012 
2007 
Farms 
Number 
Farms 
Number 
Farms 
Number 
Farms 
Number 
Colonies of bees 
1,890 
945,589 
1,155 
655,817 
Llamas 
763 
3,824 
1,386 
6,868 
Bison 
87 
1,465 
168 
2,441 
Mink, live 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
25 
663 
27 
1,339 
Rabbits, live 
378 
20,869 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other livestock (see text) 
151 
(X) 
598 
(X) 
Alpacas 
468 
7,229 
466 
7,801 
Table 35. Other Animals and Animal Products - Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
2012 
2007 
Item 
Farms 
Number 
Value 
($1,000) 
Farms 
Number 
Honey collected (pounds) (see text)' 
991 
12,088,653 
20,485 
573 
15,059,214 
Milk from sheep and goats 
284 
(NA) 
12,048 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
18 
195 
466 
38 
433 
Deer in captivity 
6 
66 
47 
15 
324 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Alpacas 
110 
588 
1,147 
126 
638 
Llamas 
57 
223 
184 
154 
557 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
149 
20,777 
414 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
Other livestock products 1 
71 
(X) 
29,275 
167 
(X) 
702 
(X) 
15,290 
368 
(X) 
Data are for farms with production, not necessarily sold. 
Table 36. Specified Crops Harvested - Yield per Acre Irrigated and Nonirrigated: 2012 
[Totals may not add due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Entire crop irrigated 
Part of crop irrigated 
None of crop irrigated 
Crop 
Farms 
Acres 
Average yield 
per acre 
Farms 
Acres 
irrigated 
Acres not 
irrigated 
Average yield 
per acre 
Farms 
Acres 
Average yield 
per acre 
Barley for grain (bushels) 
128 
43,253 
84.4 
16 
1,566 
2,256 
42.2 
120 
34,879 
43.0 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
719 
172,686 
177.0 
14 
3,177 
4,809 
169.1 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
1,719 
440,116 
25.8 
83 
21,782 
13,108 
26.3 
93 
12,564 
24.0 
Cotton, all (bales) 
630 
367,766 
3.3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
404 
142,094 
3.5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
341 
225,672 
3.1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
263 
35,981 
24.7 
6 
885 
570 
19.0 
39 
2,075 
18.3 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
137 
15,700 
104.5 
8 
201 
343 
86.3 
95 
8,821 
63.4 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
15 
27 
3,114.6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Rice (cwt) 
1,392 
561,968 
83.1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
59 
10,245 
87.5 
3 
752 
19 
123.2 
12 
2,892 
94.3 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
55 
25,819 
43.5 
3 
748 
626 
41.2 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
1,060 
365,959 
95.4 
63 
16,999 
21,593 
76.7 
380 
87,295 
58.1 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
645 
201,357 
92.8 
49 
13,523 
14,440 
81.5 
326 
86,789 
58.5 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
373 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
109 
32,913 
90.7 
5 
266 
(D) 
(D) 
65 
(D) 
(D) 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
4,591 
1,087,197 
(X) 
907 
259,469 
133,658 
(X) 
2,405 
189,703 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
2,862 
779,751 
6.5 
173 
52,107 
23,054 
6.4 
208 
19,225 
3.8 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
1,293 
184,595 
4.5 
266 
15,082 
23,351 
2.6 
1,735 
147,667 
2.1 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
1,104 
135,897 
4.7 
113 
19,157 
8,800 
3.2 
482 
48,384 
2.0 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
175 
21,200 
2.1 
27 
727 
1,532 
1.4 
353 
21,671 
1.4 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
339 
74,345 
6.9 
18 
1,961 
586 
6.1 
45 
4,681 
5.3 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
707 
161,001 
14.2 
52 
9,253 
4,843 
10.9 
217 
24,760 
11.2 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
6,053 
(D) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(X) 
- 
- 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
32,895 
3,008,946 
(X) 
1,685 
63,299 
7,808 
(X) 
3,518 
58,890 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
1,985 
52,626 
(X) 
- 
- 
- 
(X) 
- 
- 
(X) 
26 California 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
