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 
1,869 
12,669 
1,325 
10,796 
Llamas 
341 
1,209 
632 
2,436 
Bison 
41 
1,411 
95 
1,697 
Mink, live 
1 
(D) 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
32 
753 
26 
984 
Rabbits, live 
412 
7,372 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
4 
60 
12 
245 
Other livestock (see text) 
18 
(X) 
178 
(X) 
Alpacas 
200 
2,665 
194 
1,878 
Table 35. Other Animals and Animal Products - Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
2012 
2007 
Item 
Farms 
Number 
Value 
($1,000) 
Farms 
Number 
Floney collected (pounds) (see text) 1 
1,027 
344,306 
898 
719 
280,430 
Milk from sheep and goats 
65 
(NA) 
563 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
9 
418 
715 
37 
617 
Deer in captivity 
15 
146 
156 
9 
70 
Elk in captivity 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
4 
18 
Alpacas 
27 
125 
107 
35 
259 
Llamas 
23 
54 
42 
66 
211 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
152 
11,987 
96 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
9 
(X) 
374 
118 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
720 
(X) 
123,175 
123 
(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) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
117 
(D) 
(D) 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
44 
1,584 
78.6 
192 
30,074 
124,456 
81.4 
8,663 
1,374,075 
67.1 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
9 
203 
16.5 
25 
352 
457 
19.3 
2,025 
83,773 
13.3 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
6 
8 
24 
80.0 
85 
777 
58.2 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
(D) 
(D) 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
64 
(D) 
63.5 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
14 
1,615 
38.9 
109 
14,905 
74,037 
37.7 
6,107 
1,377,824 
38.5 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
446 
7,815 
2,916.1 
299 
4,916 
5,978 
2,294.1 
3,792 
69,223 
1,966.5 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
5 
155 
(D) 
40 
2,901 
16,896 
(D) 
2,128 
448,290 
61.4 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
5 
155 
(D) 
40 
2,901 
16,896 
(D) 
2,128 
448,290 
61.4 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
36 
611 
(X) 
259 
1,462 
10,386 
(X) 
43,462 
2,029,697 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
15 
156 
2.7 
78 
144 
843 
3.5 
8,104 
196,932 
2.8 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
4 
18 
(D) 
23 
163 
1,916 
(D) 
2,111 
78,259 
2.3 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
27 
365 
2.6 
161 
998 
6,532 
2.5 
33,406 
1,543,024 
2.0 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
5 
71 
0.4 
39 
95 
605 
2.0 
5,534 
148,769 
1.5 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
5 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
693 
21,598 
5.1 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
- 
- 
- 
12 
31 
140 
2.4 
1,590 
61,973 
3.1 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
432 
1,599 
(X) 
345 
1,022 
1,218 
(X) 
1,445 
3,358 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
97 
235 
(X) 
37 
87 
81 
(X) 
805 
2,689 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
194 
208 
(X) 
63 
34 
61 
(X) 
587 
563 
(X) 
26 Kentucky 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
