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 
650 
101,424 
489 
113,448 
Llamas 
309 
1,209 
589 
2,500 
Bison 
97 
3,096 
184 
6,282 
Mink, live 
22 
67,732 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
174 
6,229 
274 
8,366 
Rabbits, live 
339 
4,849 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
151 
4,610 
199 
8,112 
Other livestock (see text) 
24 
(X) 
42 
(X) 
Alpacas 
157 
1,742 
156 
1,558 
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 
Honey collected (pounds) (see text)' 
543 
8,489,410 
15,814 
404 
9,357,636 
Milk from sheep and goats 
161 
(NA) 
3,065 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
56 
937 
1,595 
111 
2,009 
Deer in captivity 
88 
1,341 
1,327 
125 
1,232 
Elk in captivity 
97 
1,047 
1,884 
123 
1,353 
Alpacas 
36 
191 
435 
33 
179 
Llamas 
32 
73 
76 
71 
181 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
106 
2,791 
32 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
19 
(X) 
6,847 
41 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
422 
(X) 
20,261 
152 
(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) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
25 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
976 
97,097 
61.1 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
263 
63,153 
161.0 
1,119 
225,026 
428,677 
162.6 
31,816 
7,599,966 
155.4 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
61 
4,947 
19.2 
124 
6,717 
12,157 
19.1 
6,561 
337,368 
16.9 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
41 
15,409 
19.6 
52 
14,339 
9,251 
22.0 
462 
116,155 
20.4 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
15 
232 
55.5 
30 
641 
667 
65.8 
4,620 
129,189 
59.7 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10 
147 
18.8 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
137 
16,691 
48.1 
611 
68,142 
160,097 
42.1 
28,035 
6,760,834 
41.9 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
3 
1,755 
28.2 
22 
4,466 
15,941 
27.3 
1,201 
458,685 
25.5 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
17 
942 
53.4 
48 
2,990 
10,385 
59.5 
5,434 
1,340,611 
56.2 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
373 
35,565 
44.2 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
16 
(D) 
53.1 
47 
(D) 
(D) 
59.6 
5,180 
1,305,046 
56.5 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
103 
5,811 
(X) 
367 
17,333 
26,845 
(X) 
26,524 
1,449,597 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
112 
5,331 
3.5 
236 
7,791 
11,973 
3.7 
17,637 
758,464 
2.8 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
12 
235 
2.6 
15 
164 
530 
0.7 
1,764 
43,123 
2.2 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
19 
634 
2.6 
35 
1,107 
1,448 
2.8 
6,385 
308,820 
1.7 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
6 
166 
(D) 
18 
241 
549 
(D) 
6,084 
173,112 
1.6 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
48 
3,559 
5.9 
77 
5,341 
7,710 
7.8 
2,700 
207,611 
7.2 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
743 
27,800 
4.3 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
243 
15,043 
(X) 
173 
18,283 
8,761 
(X) 
2,207 
181,740 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
89 
460 
(X) 
57 
346 
655 
(X) 
735 
3,582 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
151 
494 
(X) 
45 
111 
79 
(X) 
353 
474 
(X) 
26 Minnesota 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
