Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Beaufort 
Bertie 
Bladen 
Brunswick 
Buncombe 
Burke 
Cabarrus 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
203 
230 
322 
146 
718 
329 
417 
acres 
125,583 
93,224 
46,976 
24,761 
15,247 
11,599 
28,005 
Irrigated 
farms 
20 
15 
76 
34 
133 
55 
29 
acres 
2,599 
(D) 
4,022 
1,209 
852 
(D) 
342 
Barley for grain 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
11 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
921 
bushels 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
47,938 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
2 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
5 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
" 
- 
- 
- 
" 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
106 
89 
107 
57 
27 
39 
39 
acres 
42,951 
10,535 
17,132 
8,725 
226 
1,489 
4,462 
bushels 
5,505,706 
1,141,492 
1,892,406 
1,004,935 
30,399 
173,987 
416,421 
Irrigated 
farms 
9 
6 
6 
- 
- 
2 
1 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1,549 
499 
679 
“ 
“ 
(D) 
(□) 
1 to 24 acres 
8 
24 
37 
24 
24 
28 
17 
25 to 99 acres 
26 
30 
33 
17 
3 
9 
6 
100 to 249 acres 
21 
23 
19 
8 
- 
1 
12 
250 to 499 acres 
22 
9 
6 
4 
- 
- 
3 
500 to 999 acres 
23 
2 
9 
- 
- 
1 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
6 
1 
3 
4 
- 
- 
1 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
40 
3 
7 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1,557 
(D) 
513 
tons 
- 
- 
- 
- 
29,323 
(D) 
8,395 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
(D) 
(D) 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
26 
2 
1 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
6 
- 
2 
100 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
7 
1 
4 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
" 
" 
- 
Cotton, all 
farms 
35 
69 
11 
3 
_ 
_ 
1 
acres 
14,702 
32,451 
2,458 
750 
- 
- 
(D) 
bales 
26,393 
65,606 
3,666 
1,200 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
“ 
1,721 
“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
3 
5 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
7 
12 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
3 
15 
4 
1 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
7 
15 
- 
2 
- 
- 
1 
500 to 999 acres 
12 
13 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
3 
9 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
cwt 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
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 
14 
14 
83 
43 
552 
203 
366 
acres 
435 
688 
3,897 
1,405 
12,855 
6,255 
13,083 
tons, dry equivalent 
1,181 
1,646 
11,257 
3,989 
28,158 
11,391 
26,949 
Irrigated 
farms 
1 
- 
16 
6 
15 
2 
2 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
“ 
505 
228 
63 
(D) 
(D) 
1 to 24 acres 
11 
6 
46 
26 
412 
119 
209 
25 to 99 acres 
1 
6 
28 
12 
116 
75 
127 
1 00 to 249 acres 
2 
1 
6 
5 
22 
7 
26 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
1 
2 
- 
2 
1 
3 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
1 
1 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
“ 
Oats for grain 
farms 
7 
1 
6 
5 
- 
- 
10 
acres 
658 
(D) 
56 
40 
- 
- 
290 
bushels 
64,231 
(D) 
2,930 
1,800 
- 
- 
22,944 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
1 
6 
5 
- 
- 
6 
25 to 99 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
100 to 249 acres 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Peanuts for nuts 
farms 
1 
48 
27 
5 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
9,444 
3,433 
25 
- 
- 
- 
pounds 
(D) 
36,889,215 
13,911,587 
65,600 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
720 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
-continued 
474 North Carolina 2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
