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 
651 
30,004 
482 
29,110 
Llamas 
232 
1,185 
516 
2,394 
Bison 
65 
1,838 
110 
2,889 
Mink, live 
14 
34,305 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
65 
3,431 
130 
4,559 
Rabbits, live 
257 
6,234 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
41 
885 
71 
2,460 
Other livestock (see text) 
8 
(X) 
115 
(X) 
Alpacas 
94 
1,115 
71 
869 
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)' 
446 
2,098,870 
4,462 
362 
2,111,391 
Milk from sheep and goats 
238 
(NA) 
10,585 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
37 
432 
714 
55 
695 
Deer in captivity 
32 
736 
982 
68 
712 
Elk in captivity 
14 
144 
236 
35 
471 
Alpacas 
25 
105 
251 
21 
136 
Llamas 
37 
104 
66 
95 
316 
Mink, live (see text) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
115 
11,045 
98 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
5 
(X) 
(D) 
54 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
334 
(X) 
19,363 
85 
(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) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
79 
2,153 
39.3 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
55 
11,051 
153.4 
474 
100,470 
241,298 
131.8 
46,948 
13,356,589 
133.9 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
36 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
6,896 
379,665 
14.3 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
4 
164 
69.1 
15 
192 
757 
61.9 
2,575 
56,146 
67.7 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
26 
751 
78.5 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
36 
6,556 
45.6 
275 
43,081 
97,717 
38.5 
41,399 
9,154,240 
43.8 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
69.2 
335 
13,442 
48.4 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
69.2 
322 
12,939 
48.8 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
13 
503 
38.4 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
16 
484 
(X) 
60 
748 
1,352 
(X) 
26,143 
993,732 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
5 
110 
2.6 
42 
431 
870 
3.0 
19,670 
654,956 
3.1 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
2,163 
44,873 
2.1 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
4 
5 
1.0 
9 
(D) 
(D) 
1.4 
6,002 
207,087 
1.7 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,441 
(D) 
(□) 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,383 
70,138 
7.2 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
7 
(D) 
(D) 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
883 
22,561 
3.7 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
164 
1,554 
(X) 
167 
527 
705 
(X) 
631 
4,860 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
47 
125 
(X) 
32 
131 
142 
(X) 
673 
2,576 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
93 
127 
(X) 
16 
23 
15 
(X) 
296 
515 
(X) 
26 Iowa 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
