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 
356 
7,892 
319 
6,444 
Llamas 
66 
236 
154 
818 
Bison 
8 
441 
25 
783 
Mink, live 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
1 
(D) 
6 
142 
Rabbits, live 
97 
946 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other livestock (see text) 
19 
(X) 
14 
(X) 
Alpacas 
119 
1,802 
145 
2,391 
Table 35. Other Animals and Animal Products - Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
2012 
2007 
Farms 
Number 
Value 
($1,000) 
Farms 
Number 
Honey collected (pounds) (see text)' 
174 
114,631 
325 
237 
110,721 
Milk from sheep and goats 
37 
(NA) 
400 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
16 
325 
Deer in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Alpacas 
27 
163 
360 
44 
275 
Llamas 
15 
32 
29 
16 
46 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
37 
1,082 
11 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
6 
(X) 
(D) 
20 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
146 
(X) 
2,397 
65 
(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) 
15 
1,254 
86.1 
34 
1,383 
1,596 
94.5 
683 
35,900 
81.1 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
83 
8,049 
187.7 
268 
41,942 
65,526 
126.9 
2,537 
320,129 
109.2 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
6 
265 
20.7 
21 
1,876 
3,416 
19.8 
626 
37,259 
17.4 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
171 
1,919 
65.4 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
11 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
141 
14,009 
56.0 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
19 
1,449 
46.6 
205 
22,952 
55,962 
45.5 
2,287 
395,252 
45.4 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
23 
124 
2,532.5 
4 
16 
9 
2,545.4 
16 
108 
2,068.8 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
20 
1,943 
65.3 
104 
7,781 
12,923 
70.4 
1,672 
187,707 
65.9 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
20 
1,943 
65.3 
104 
7,781 
12,923 
70.4 
1,672 
187,707 
65.9 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
20 
232 
(X) 
72 
1,367 
4,131 
(X) 
4,299 
175,113 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
5 
78 
2.6 
20 
270 
526 
3.5 
1,028 
28,254 
3.2 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
369 
10,548 
(D) 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
17 
175 
3.9 
35 
448 
742 
2.5 
2,877 
101,145 
2.5 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
11 
18 
125 
2.0 
604 
14,327 
2.0 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
5 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
328 
(D) 
(D) 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
- 
- 
- 
11 
(D) 
(D) 
7.2 
417 
19,393 
5.3 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
232 
9,064 
(X) 
137 
3,561 
2,427 
(X) 
420 
13,078 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
42 
369 
(X) 
38 
438 
1,034 
(X) 
278 
2,133 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
97 
239 
(X) 
26 
24 
34 
(X) 
192 
183 
(X) 
26 Maryland 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
