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 
160 
370,480 
173 
390,421 
Llamas 
329 
117 
362 
Bison 
89 
9,560 
145 
15,881 
Mink, live 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
11 
1,024 
20 
628 
Rabbits, live 
714 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
41 
2,065 
82 
5,182 
Other livestock (see text) 
H 
(X) 
1 
(X) 
Alpacas 
11 
87 
12 
59 
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)' 
154 
29,193,610 
53,594 
161 
30,825,479 
Milk from sheep and goats 
13 
(NA) 
73 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
74 
3,446 
6,230 
111 
6,042 
Deer in captivity 
6 
156 
156 
3 
34 
Elk in captivity 
19 
634 
1,151 
40 
545 
Alpacas 
- 
- 
- 
2 
(D) 
Llamas 
22 
38 
28 
15 
57 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
17 
367 
7 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
2 
(X) 
(D) 
4 
(X) 
Other livestock products^ 
117 
(X) 
697 
18 
(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) 
33 
6,258 
71.6 
38 
4,402 
18,391 
49.8 
3,077 
977,503 
59.9 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
58 
10,596 
151.8 
288 
80,794 
222,673 
133.7 
6,305 
3,151,934 
115.4 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
22 
1,163 
18.7 
28 
2,881 
8,019 
13.0 
1,405 
139,033 
11.6 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
5 
750 
18.4 
60 
1 1 ,326 
22,505 
16.7 
1,502 
647,197 
17.5 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,157 
108,952 
61.9 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
38 
8,424 
41.5 
143 
22,264 
110,211 
36.3 
7,042 
4,588,238 
32.4 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
32 
(D) 
28.6 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
25.5 
492 
(D) 
26.4 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
32 
7,486 
52.4 
81 
9,993 
54,597 
45.6 
10,257 
7,695,408 
42.2 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
16 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,751 
(D) 
53.2 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
16 
2,520 
58.3 
24 
3,382 
23,364 
35.1 
2,137 
1,300,569 
34.7 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
19 
5,067 
49.3 
52 
5,449 
22,971 
51.9 
8,621 
5,674,918 
42.6 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
42 
3,021 
(X) 
144 
10,391 
45,481 
(X) 
9,955 
2,113,845 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
55 
4,068 
3.5 
99 
6,804 
29,155 
1.9 
7,263 
1,173,318 
1.4 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
8 
374 
2.3 
8 
204 
566 
2.1 
1,384 
153,037 
1.7 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
10 
433 
3.1 
20 
597 
2,415 
1.8 
2,401 
377,220 
1.4 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
3 
150 
0.6 
20 
701 
2,159 
1.6 
3,510 
402,184 
1.3 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
_ 
_ 
_ 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
174 
(D) 
(D) 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
- 
- 
- 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
240 
(D) 
(D) 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
46 
24,511 
(X) 
27 
833 
1,110 
(X) 
189 
62,287 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
14 
(D) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(X) 
39 
(D) 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
9 
13 
(X) 
5 
1 
3 
(X) 
43 
47 
(X) 
26 North Dakota 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
