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 
2,165 
24,225 
1,967 
31,768 
Llamas 
321 
1,386 
460 
1,803 
Bison 
25 
312 
43 
645 
Mink, live 
2 
(D) 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
11 
140 
29 
375 
Rabbits, live 
308 
10,241 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
3 
20 
13 
129 
Other livestock (see text) 
48 
(X) 
505 
(X) 
Alpacas 
231 
2,921 
135 
1,663 
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)' 
1,267 
707,430 
1,668 
1,083 
565,741 
Milk from sheep and goats 
140 
(NA) 
1,630 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
5 
40 
(D) 
11 
94 
Deer in captivity 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
3 
31 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
2 
(D) 
Alpacas 
57 
206 
262 
37 
110 
Llamas 
24 
59 
43 
34 
114 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
129 
18,314 
(D) 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
12 
(X) 
(D) 
179 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
363 
(X) 
2,896 
130 
(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) 
3 
(D) 
30.3 
8 
(D) 
(D) 
62.2 
239 
16,229 
59.0 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
139 
5,657 
122.8 
260 
20,999 
60,832 
129.8 
4,967 
715,532 
114.7 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
4 
25 
18.0 
22 
878 
3,541 
16.3 
576 
42,206 
15.6 
Cotton, all (bales) 
12 
3,943 
2.1 
88 
12,161 
47,771 
2.0 
1,332 
516,926 
1.9 
Upland cotton (bales) 
12 
3,943 
2.1 
88 
12,161 
47,771 
2.0 
1,332 
516,926 
1.9 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
8 
(D) 
(D) 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
4 
23 
40.9 
15 
64 
290 
46.6 
424 
13,013 
78.9 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
8 
858 
4,517.1 
49 
4,247 
8,964 
4,655.4 
579 
91,670 
3,816.2 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
7 
126 
50.1 
19 
609 
1,459 
68.3 
568 
47,625 
60.0 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
52 
3,761 
36.7 
210 
11,801 
64,391 
41.2 
6,759 
1,484,853 
38.6 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
182 
11,221 
2,532.6 
219 
13,587 
19,943 
2,438.4 
1,281 
122,692 
2,294.6 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
48 
3,394 
56.5 
124 
4,966 
28,610 
63.2 
3,984 
716,743 
56.2 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
48 
3,394 
56.5 
124 
4,966 
28,610 
63.2 
3,977 
716,519 
56.2 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10 
224 
42.8 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
358 
15,141 
(X) 
343 
10,185 
19,325 
(X) 
18,861 
598,535 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
3 
40 
2.3 
7 
95 
132 
3.7 
599 
9,541 
3.9 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
95 
2,268 
2.8 
46 
463 
1,122 
2.4 
1,573 
36,285 
2.5 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
307 
13,145 
3.9 
277 
8,345 
16,143 
2.8 
15,521 
494,685 
2.3 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
9 
126 
2.1 
20 
46 
259 
0.7 
1,931 
35,255 
1.4 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
88 
(D) 
(D) 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
15 
420 
4.9 
16 
(D) 
(D) 
7.6 
682 
25,203 
5.2 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
623 
14,407 
(X) 
424 
8,645 
18,693 
(X) 
2,236 
80,772 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
218 
1,403 
(X) 
148 
502 
666 
(X) 
1,321 
10,328 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
451 
2,908 
(X) 
122 
1,561 
1,060 
(X) 
884 
2,897 
(X) 
26 North Carolina 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
