Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Rhode Island 
Bristol 
Kent 
Newport 
Providence 
Washington 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
746 
27 
82 
142 
255 
240 
acres 
18,933 
910 
1,645 
5,652 
3,223 
7,503 
Irrigated 
farms 
298 
9 
32 
53 
109 
95 
acres 
3,778 
78 
165 
400 
537 
2,598 
Corn for grain 
farms 
15 
_ 
_ 
1 
_ 
14 
acres 
240 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
35,570 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
13 
- 
- 
1 
- 
12 
25 to 99 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 00 to 249 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
27 
1 
6 
7 
4 
9 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
120 
751 
133 
422 
tons 
(D) 
(D) 
2,236 
14,927 
2,585 
7,368 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
13 
1 
3 
2 
3 
4 
25 to 99 acres 
9 
- 
3 
2 
- 
4 
1 00 to 249 acres 
4 
- 
- 
2 
1 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
1 
- 
- 
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 
285 
12 
40 
38 
103 
92 
acres 
8,220 
634 
1,215 
1,892 
1,706 
2,773 
tons, dry equivalent 
15,426 
686 
2,203 
4,299 
2,286 
5,952 
Irrigated 
farms 
7 
- 
1 
1 
5 
- 
acres 
20 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
182 
4 
24 
17 
83 
54 
25 to 99 acres 
88 
6 
14 
15 
19 
34 
1 00 to 249 acres 
13 
2 
1 
5 
1 
4 
250 to 499 acres 
2 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans 
farms 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wheat for grain, all 
farms 
4 
_ 
_ 
4 
_ 
_ 
acres 
1,024 
- 
- 
1,024 
- 
- 
bushels 
48,332 
- 
- 
48,332 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
4 
- 
- 
4 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Vegetables harvested for 
sale (see text) 
farms 
243 
14 
12 
60 
83 
74 
acres 
2,397 
129 
61 
982 
723 
502 
Farms by acres harvested: 
0.1 to 4.9 acres 
188 
10 
9 
43 
69 
57 
5.0 to 24.9 acres 
38 
2 
2 
9 
13 
12 
25.0 to 99.9 acres 
12 
2 
1 
4 
- 
5 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
3 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
250.0 to 499.9 acres 
2 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
500.0 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500.0 to 749.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
750.0 to 999.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1,000.0 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Land in orchards 
farms 
74 
_ 
2 
16 
38 
18 
acres 
378 
- 
(D) 
129 
219 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
15 
- 
2 
7 
6 
acres 
98 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
Farms by bearing and nonbearing acres: 
0.1 to 4.9 acres 
49 
- 
2 
7 
23 
17 
5.0 to 24.9 acres 
23 
- 
- 
8 
14 
1 
25.0 to 99.9 acres 
2 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250.0 to 499.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500.0 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500.0 to 749.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
750.0 to 999.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1,000.0 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
232 Rhode Island 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
