Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Maine 
Androscoggin 
Aroostook 
Cumberland 
Franklin 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
5,325 
333 
560 
448 
212 
acres 
400,960 
18,919 
146,957 
16,286 
8,573 
Irrigated 
farms 
1,355 
117 
89 
147 
37 
acres 
30,811 
(D) 
1 1 ,404 
(D) 
59 
Barley for grain 
farms 
58 
2 
44 
- 
1 
acres 
15,324 
(D) 
15,096 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
868,647 
(D) 
860,835 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
3 
3 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
968 
" 
968 
■ 
■ 
1 to 24 acres 
15 
1 
5 
- 
1 
25 to 99 acres 
12 
1 
8 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
11 
- 
11 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
12 
- 
12 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
4 
- 
4 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
4 
- 
4 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
68 
2 
7 
1 
2 
acres 
5,040 
(D) 
344 
(D) 
(D) 
bushels 
649,389 
(D) 
40,728 
(D) 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
7 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
316 
" 
" 
“ 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
39 
- 
4 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
13 
- 
2 
1 
1 
1 00 to 249 acres 
9 
2 
1 
- 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
151 
11 
8 
5 
3 
acres 
24,214 
1,932 
475 
364 
90 
tons 
371,184 
31,646 
5,864 
5,712 
1,295 
Irrigated 
farms 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
■ 
" 
" 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
37 
1 
5 
1 
1 
25 to 99 acres 
49 
6 
1 
2 
2 
1 00 to 249 acres 
36 
1 
2 
2 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
15 
1 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
12 
2 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas 
farms 
18 
- 
1 
- 
1 
acres 
365 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
cwt 
5,387 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
1 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
" 
" 
" 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
16 
- 
1 
- 
1 
25 to 99 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
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 
2,859 
182 
241 
259 
139 
acres 
193,106 
15,190 
27,362 
14,498 
7,506 
tons, dry equivalent 
424,176 
31,890 
54,079 
29,566 
16,967 
Irrigated 
farms 
47 
2 
3 
4 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
408 
(D) 
9 
19 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
1,235 
64 
94 
125 
73 
25 to 99 acres 
1,084 
60 
94 
93 
43 
1 00 to 249 acres 
387 
40 
34 
35 
17 
250 to 499 acres 
126 
16 
15 
5 
5 
500 to 999 acres 
22 
2 
1 
- 
1 
1 ,000 acres or more 
5 
- 
3 
1 
- 
Oats for grain 
farms 
154 
_ 
123 
_ 
2 
acres 
28,725 
- 
28,298 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
1,856,231 
- 
1,832,591 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
10 
- 
8 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
420 
" 
(D) 
■ 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
48 
- 
20 
- 
2 
25 to 99 acres 
23 
- 
21 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
37 
- 
36 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
35 
- 
35 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
9 
- 
9 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
2 
- 
2 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain 
farms 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1 to 24 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans 
farms 
30 
2 
17 
- 
1 
acres 
2,128 
(D) 
1,856 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
87,088 
(D) 
73,984 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
--continued 
282 Maine 2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
