Table 41. Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagative Materials 
Grown for Sale: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Crops 
Under glass or other protection 
In the open 
Value of sales 
Farms 
Square feet 
Farms 
Acres 
Farms 
Dollars 
Aquatic plants 
2012 
1 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
3 
(D) 
2007 
4 
12,965 
2 
(D) 
5 
(D) 
Bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers-dry 
2012 
3 
9,000 
9 
10 
10 
82,700 
2007 
3 
(D) 
10 
7 
7 
(D) 
Cuttings, seedlings, liners, and plugs 
(see text) 
2012 
8 
292,358 
4 
(D) 
10 
5,368,932 
2007 
7 
563,060 
- 
6 
5,253,795 
Floriculture crops - 
bedding/garden plants, cut flowers and 
cut florist greens, foliage plants, potted 
flowering plants, and other floriculture and 
bedding crops, total 
2012 
265 
6,242,920 
142 
271 
358 
65,604,214 
2007 
246 
7,302,075 
124 
316 
313 
56,042,988 
Bedding/garden plants 
2012 
225 
5,163,025 
78 
101 
276 
54,910,926 
2007 
230 
6,182,464 
68 
189 
259 
46,339,961 
Cut flowers and cut florist greens 
2012 
14 
50,851 
41 
41 
49 
442,723 
2007 
10 
(D) 
52 
48 
55 
247,968 
Foliage plants, indoor 
2012 
17 
46,799 
2 
(D) 
19 
208,014 
2007 
15 
63,631 
1 
(D) 
16 
1,517,843 
Potted flowering plants 
2012 
38 
872,960 
20 
(D) 
53 
9,142,705 
2007 
53 
1,030,226 
14 
(D) 
66 
7,869,817 
Other floriculture and bedding crops 
2012 
17 
109,285 
17 
102 
30 
899,846 
2007 
1 
(D) 
5 
(D) 
5 
67,399 
Flower seeds 
2012 
6 
15,300 
15 
1,117 
21 
1,291,506 
2007 
8 
13,789 
18 
2,233 
25 
3,000,858 
Greenhouse fruits and berries (see text) 
2012 
12 
24,051 
(X) 
(X) 
10 
(D) 
2007 
4 
5,480 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
12,470 
Total greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
210 
933,722 
(X) 
(X) 
210 
7,353,301 
2007 
106 
910,479 
(X) 
(X) 
106 
7,570,534 
2012 farms by area: 
1 to 999 square feet 
31 
13,059 
(X) 
(X) 
31 
63,958 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 square feet 
41 
58,748 
(X) 
(X) 
41 
329,433 
2,000 to 2,999 square feet 
50 
121,214 
(X) 
(X) 
50 
638,937 
3,000 to 3,999 square feet 
21 
65,576 
(X) 
(X) 
21 
349,228 
4,000 to 5,999 square feet 
31 
156,096 
(X) 
(X) 
31 
933,012 
6,000 to 9,999 square feet 
21 
148,470 
(X) 
(X) 
21 
841,915 
1 0,000 or more square feet 
15 
370,559 
(X) 
(X) 
15 
4,196,818 
10,000 to 19,999 square feet 
8 
92,860 
(X) 
(X) 
8 
(D) 
20,000 to 39,999 square feet 
3 
84,709 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
(D) 
40,000 or more square feet 
4 
192,990 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
1,081,110 
Greenhouse tomatoes 
2012 
184 
719,282 
(X) 
(X) 
184 
4,453,356 
2007 
90 
281,819 
(X) 
(X) 
90 
1,681,864 
Other greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
93 
214,440 
(X) 
(X) 
93 
2,899,945 
2007 
46 
628,660 
(X) 
(X) 
46 
5,888,670 
Mushrooms 
2012 
5 
12,210 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
120,003 
2007 
- 
- 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
Nursery stock crops (see text) 
2012 
18 
50,307 
140 
1,070 
145 
12,181,084 
2007 1 
22 
29,885 
142 
1,875 
148 
11,780,934 
Sod harvested 
2012 
(X) 
(X) 
27 
3,093 
27 
6,947,799 
2007 
(X) 
(X) 
31 
4,225 
31 
8,766,794 
2012 farms by area: 
0 to 14.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
10 
45 
10 
82,072 
15.0 to 49.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
(D) 
3 
(D) 
50.0 to 99.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
380 
5 
778,170 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
548 
4 
1,459,092 
250.0 to 399.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
1,020 
3 
2,361,800 
400.0 to 749.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
750.0 acres or more 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Vegetable seeds 
2012 
8 
22,228 
20 
43 
27 
244,606 
2007 
12 
28,733 
6 
29 
16 
47,610 
Vegetable transplants 
2012 
22 
33,473 
1 
(D) 
22 
70,030 
2007 
25 
52,248 
9 
6 
34 
150,679 
1 2007 data do not include Other nursery stock. 
34 Iowa 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
