Table 41. Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagative Materials 
Grown for Sale: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Crops 
Under glass or other protection 
In the open 
Value of sales 
Farms 
Square feet 
Farms 
Acres 
Farms 
Dollars 
Aquatic plants 
2012 
3 
(D) 
4 
3 
5 
38,360 
2007 
10 
10,156 
3 
2 
11 
66,860 
Bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers-dry 
2012 
_ 
_ 
11 
17 
11 
57,287 
2007 
3 
(D) 
5 
4 
7 
145,556 
Cuttings, seedlings, liners, and plugs 
(see text) 
2012 
6 
4,795 
2 
(D) 
8 
31,800 
2007 
22 
110,823 
9 
10 
28 
1,240,758 
Floriculture crops - 
bedding/garden plants, cut flowers and 
cut florist greens, foliage plants, potted 
flowering plants, and other floriculture and 
bedding crops, total 
2012 
441 
5,220,636 
322 
359 
652 
47,855,278 
2007 
486 
6,499,682 
250 
279 
616 
45,094,228 
Bedding/garden plants 
2012 
378 
3,915,032 
187 
201 
494 
37,244,375 
2007 
432 
4,609,342 
152 
161 
508 
31,255,924 
Cut flowers and cut florist greens 
2012 
10 
46,633 
51 
38 
59 
398,462 
2007 
31 
281,746 
42 
53 
61 
1,849,802 
Foliage plants, indoor 
2012 
45 
345,028 
5 
6 
49 
3,684,132 
2007 
40 
207,300 
3 
(D) 
42 
668,701 
Potted flowering plants 
2012 
77 
809,783 
66 
54 
132 
5,947,807 
2007 
121 
1,357,882 
65 
61 
167 
11,050,328 
Other floriculture and bedding crops 
2012 
21 
104,160 
38 
60 
54 
580,502 
2007 
7 
43,412 
2 
(D) 
8 
269,473 
Flower seeds 
2012 
9 
1,456 
4 
(D) 
13 
35,765 
2007 
10 
12,452 
10 
16 
20 
41,490 
Greenhouse fruits and berries (see text) 
2012 
6 
8,297 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
(D) 
2007 
6 
8,000 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
12,000 
Total greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
235 
954,291 
(X) 
(X) 
235 
2,836,460 
2007 
118 
498,218 
(X) 
(X) 
118 
3,704,534 
2012 farms by area: 
1 to 999 square feet 
57 
23,500 
(X) 
(X) 
57 
109,659 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 square feet 
25 
32,384 
(X) 
(X) 
25 
170,890 
2,000 to 2,999 square feet 
52 
126,701 
(X) 
(X) 
52 
596,762 
3,000 to 3,999 square feet 
29 
94,320 
(X) 
(X) 
29 
477,338 
4,000 to 5,999 square feet 
22 
99,758 
(X) 
(X) 
22 
392,846 
6,000 to 9,999 square feet 
21 
166,908 
(X) 
(X) 
21 
419,648 
1 0,000 or more square feet 
29 
410,720 
(X) 
(X) 
29 
669,317 
10,000 to 19,999 square feet 
25 
314,400 
(X) 
(X) 
25 
541,005 
20,000 to 39,999 square feet 
4 
96,320 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
128,312 
40,000 or more square feet 
- 
- 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
Greenhouse tomatoes 
2012 
194 
772,158 
(X) 
(X) 
194 
2,559,804 
2007 
90 
366,191 
(X) 
(X) 
90 
2,726,997 
Other greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
83 
182,133 
(X) 
(X) 
83 
276,656 
2007 
43 
132,027 
(X) 
(X) 
43 
977,537 
Mushroom spawn (see text) 
2012 
1 
(X) 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
2007 
- 
(X) 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
Mushrooms 
2012 
20 
29,070 
(X) 
(X) 
20 
155,567 
2007 
27 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
27 
342,891 
Nursery stock crops (see text) 
2012 
67 
374,142 
306 
2,876 
334 
16,504,503 
2007 1 
103 
1,096,239 
294 
3,951 
332 
23,635,510 
Sod harvested 
2012 
(X) 
(X) 
28 
2,456 
28 
7,443,439 
2007 
(X) 
(X) 
39 
3,229 
39 
8,622,341 
2012 farms by area: 
0 to 14.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
36 
5 
90,000 
15.0 to 49.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
9 
342 
9 
1,521,250 
50.0 to 99.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
335 
5 
732,233 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
864 
6 
2,501,495 
250.0 to 399.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
879 
3 
2,598,461 
400.0 to 749.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
750.0 acres or more 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
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- 
- 
Tobacco transplants 
2012 
160 
1,308,030 
15 
32 
167 
4,309,486 
2007 
173 
1,383,750 
6 
(D) 
176 
3,715,364 
Vegetable seeds 
2012 
14 
16,570 
9 
1 
22 
69,899 
2007 
16 
7,897 
6 
2 
21 
7,776 
Vegetable transplants 
2012 
45 
124,303 
12 
3 
52 
526,712 
2007 
39 
125,526 
10 
6 
46 
(D) 
1 2007 data do not include Other nursery stock. 
34 Kentucky 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
