Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Black Hawk 
Boone 
Bremer 
Buchanan 
Buena Vista 
Butler 
Calhoun 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
716 
659 
703 
844 
658 
737 
594 
acres 
265,823 
271,424 
232,900 
308,349 
324,664 
314,807 
317,220 
Irrigated 
farms 
24 
25 
15 
11 
11 
6 
8 
acres 
(D) 
148 
(D) 
(D) 
668 
396 
295 
Barley for grain 
farms 
1 
- 
- 
1 
3 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
60 
- 
- 
bushels 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
1,950 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
‘ 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
1 
- 
- 
1 
3 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
574 
445 
564 
695 
565 
615 
508 
acres 
160,915 
170,328 
147,936 
212,900 
176,744 
194,695 
187,017 
bushels 
19,234,326 
25,547,788 
19,372,108 
29,948,931 
26,838,986 
21,411,979 
23,693,002 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
3 
1 
- 
3 
4 
2 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
“ 
(D) 
(D) 
" 
618 
344 
(D) 
1 to 24 acres 
47 
54 
65 
100 
28 
79 
18 
25 to 99 acres 
171 
109 
165 
168 
105 
164 
107 
1 00 to 249 acres 
147 
101 
168 
158 
160 
156 
125 
250 to 499 acres 
98 
68 
83 
154 
185 
103 
121 
500 to 999 acres 
87 
68 
56 
78 
67 
67 
103 
1 ,000 acres or more 
24 
45 
27 
37 
20 
46 
34 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
49 
21 
77 
76 
51 
75 
22 
acres 
1,896 
524 
4,472 
2,694 
2,520 
2,888 
1,650 
tons 
24,361 
7,334 
67,101 
33,453 
42,252 
31,371 
20,530 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
‘ 
‘ 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
19 
15 
19 
42 
21 
40 
9 
25 to 99 acres 
24 
6 
43 
28 
24 
25 
9 
1 00 to 249 acres 
6 
- 
12 
5 
5 
10 
2 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
3 
1 
- 
- 
2 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
cwt 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
Forage - land used for all hay and 
all haylage, grass silage, and 
greenchop (see text) 
farms 
197 
243 
263 
303 
159 
245 
Ill 
acres 
3,661 
4,677 
6,415 
6,591 
3,332 
5,954 
1,515 
tons, dry equivalent 
8,809 
10,722 
22,439 
17,771 
10,004 
16,244 
2,931 
Irrigated 
farms 
2 
1 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
“ 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
“ 
1 to 24 acres 
151 
198 
173 
215 
111 
176 
93 
25 to 99 acres 
44 
34 
85 
84 
47 
62 
17 
100 to 249 acres 
2 
11 
5 
4 
1 
5 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain 
farms 
25 
13 
43 
57 
11 
21 
20 
acres 
498 
175 
752 
940 
200 
647 
363 
bushels 
42,019 
13,568 
49,358 
67,981 
11,649 
52,098 
26,794 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
13 
11 
34 
49 
8 
14 
14 
25 to 99 acres 
12 
2 
9 
8 
3 
4 
6 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
" 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain 
farms 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1 to 24 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans 
farms 
506 
400 
465 
524 
560 
523 
467 
acres 
98,265 
95,422 
73,211 
84,670 
141,285 
110,505 
124,950 
bushels 
4,178,833 
4,348,951 
3,291,410 
3,894,932 
6,069,740 
4,337,331 
4,824,315 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
1 
4 
- 
1 
1 
1 
acres 
- 
(D) 
244 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
-continued 
472 Iowa 2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
