Table 38. Grain Storage Capacity: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Geographic area 
Grain storage capacity 
(see text) 
Farms with capacity by North 
American Industry 
Classification System 
Farms 
Bushels 
Average bushels 
per farm 
Crop production 
(111) 
Animal production 
and aquaculture 
(112) 
Counties, 2012 - Con. 
Stanly 
43 
1,691,000 
39,326 
32 
11 
Stokes 
23 
70,505 
3,065 
15 
8 
Surry 
41 
2,014,520 
49,135 
23 
18 
Swain 
5 
1,440 
288 
5 
- 
Transylvania 
10 
43,440 
4,344 
6 
4 
Tyrrell 
30 
4,742,900 
158,097 
29 
1 
Union 
103 
7,001,529 
67,976 
65 
38 
Vance 
29 
306,400 
10,566 
28 
1 
Wake 
51 
602,550 
11,815 
43 
8 
Warren 
26 
508,900 
19,573 
19 
7 
Washington 
39 
3,395,200 
87,056 
37 
2 
Watauga 
13 
4,520 
348 
7 
6 
Wayne 
97 
2,666,350 
27,488 
53 
44 
Wilkes 
31 
505,431 
16,304 
10 
21 
Wilson 
26 
840,326 
32,320 
26 
- 
Yadkin 
52 
957,810 
18,419 
34 
18 
Yancey 
4 
1,840 
460 
- 
4 
1 2007 data may not include storage capacity for pulse crops. 
606 North Carolina 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
