Table 1. County Summary Highlights: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Lyon 
Madison 
Mahaska 
Marion 
Marshall 
Mills 
Mitchell 
Monona 
Selected crops harvested: - Con. 
Wheat for grain, all - Con. 
Durum wheat for grain 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain 
farms 
25 
5 
24 
29 
16 
- 
70 
3 
acres 
294 
142 
421 
704 
410 
- 
979 
26 
bushels 
23,742 
6,180 
21,751 
48,600 
34,802 
- 
76,027 
2,800 
Barley for grain 
farms 
1 
- 
1 
- 
4 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
56 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
1,862 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
bushels 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
Sorghum for silage or greenchop 
farms 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
tons 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans 
farms 
721 
356 
501 
385 
452 
276 
477 
315 
acres 
121,465 
65,326 
100,347 
76,940 
110,329 
81,270 
91,869 
116,760 
bushels 
5,977,576 
2,443,319 
4,750,841 
3,431,112 
5,907,035 
2,971,838 
3,795,349 
4,343,343 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
cwt 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton, all 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
pounds 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Forage - land used for all hay and all haylage, 
grass silage, and greenchop (see text) 
farms 
282 
430 
279 
364 
222 
127 
240 
110 
acres 
7,171 
18,080 
7,448 
11,975 
6,939 
3,669 
6,476 
4,256 
tons, dry 
26,267 
39,624 
20,175 
33,501 
25,704 
9,467 
20,236 
13,534 
Rice 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
cwt 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sunflower seed, all 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
pounds 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarbeets for sugar 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
pounds 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Vegetables harvested for sale (see text) 
farms 
8 
8 
8 
17 
13 
3 
19 
3 
acres 
56 
59 
21 
71 
41 
2 
252 
2 
Potatoes 
farms 
4 
6 
4 
12 
7 
3 
6 
1 
acres 
4 
3 
1 
2 
1 
(Z) 
1 
(D) 
Sweet potatoes 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Land in orchards 
farms 
4 
15 
6 
13 
12 
13 
10 
1 
acres 
6 
62 
100 
117 
29 
38 
43 
(D) 
-continued 
248 Iowa 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
