Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Kentucky 
Adair 
Allen 
Anderson 
Ballard 
Barren 
Bath 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
52,547 
851 
734 
440 
270 
1,348 
512 
acres 
5,349,545 
51,703 
36,345 
24,174 
78,427 
113,031 
39,184 
Irrigated 
farms 
2,795 
24 
58 
34 
11 
34 
12 
acres 
71,168 
75 
297 
242 
(D) 
(D) 
47 
Barley for grain 
farms 
119 
- 
- 
- 
1 
4 
1 
acres 
7,236 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
123 
(D) 
bushels 
494,334 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
5,446 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
_ 
1 to 24 acres 
61 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
41 
- 
- 
- 
1 
2 
1 
1 00 to 249 acres 
11 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
8,899 
134 
88 
23 
120 
172 
86 
acres 
1,530,189 
7,365 
3,442 
1,284 
31,915 
22,033 
2,636 
bushels 
104,894,595 
521,021 
162,110 
109,516 
1,575,179 
1,490,128 
223,022 
Irrigated 
farms 
236 
- 
10 
- 
2 
- 
1 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
31,658 
" 
10 
“ 
(D) 
" 
(D) 
1 to 24 acres 
3,686 
83 
50 
9 
13 
69 
59 
25 to 99 acres 
2,640 
35 
26 
6 
55 
56 
21 
1 00 to 249 acres 
1,135 
7 
11 
8 
21 
24 
5 
250 to 499 acres 
597 
7 
1 
- 
7 
10 
1 
500 to 999 acres 
489 
2 
- 
- 
13 
10 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
352 
- 
" 
" 
11 
3 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
2,059 
49 
8 
7 
3 
91 
33 
acres 
84,785 
3,819 
353 
348 
195 
9,207 
432 
tons 
1,136,815 
51,490 
3,012 
5,895 
2,695 
118,348 
5,984 
Irrigated 
farms 
34 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
555 
" 
“ 
" 
" 
(D) 
(D) 
1 to 24 acres 
1,075 
15 
2 
3 
- 
28 
29 
25 to 99 acres 
801 
19 
5 
2 
2 
40 
4 
1 00 to 249 acres 
160 
13 
1 
2 
1 
16 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
12 
2 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
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 
43,757 
768 
652 
408 
121 
1,217 
478 
acres 
2,042,156 
33,824 
27,956 
20,888 
4,661 
57,335 
31,841 
tons, dry equivalent 
4,158,043 
72,531 
63,216 
34,568 
7,420 
123,646 
63,814 
Irrigated 
farms 
295 
3 
14 
6 
- 
5 
3 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
2,073 
3 
52 
120 
" 
(D) 
5 
1 to 24 acres 
20,179 
331 
285 
150 
58 
474 
162 
25 to 99 acres 
18,434 
364 
302 
196 
54 
608 
231 
1 00 to 249 acres 
4,298 
63 
57 
51 
7 
121 
66 
250 to 499 acres 
693 
8 
7 
10 
2 
10 
14 
500 to 999 acres 
133 
2 
1 
1 
- 
4 
4 
1 ,000 acres or more 
20 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Oats for grain 
farms 
91 
1 
9 
- 
- 
4 
2 
acres 
809 
(D) 
54 
- 
- 
27 
(D) 
bushels 
47,794 
(D) 
2,730 
- 
- 
1,600 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
6 
4 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
8 
4 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
85 
1 
9 
- 
- 
4 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
" 
- 
" 
- 
Peanuts for nuts 
farms 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
pounds 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1 to 24 acres 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain 
farms 
67 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
4,515 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
bushels 
286,666 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
4 
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524 Kentucky 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
