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 
1,743 
14,161 
1,458 
12,614 
Llamas 
315 
1,274 
636 
2,427 
Bison 
39 
346 
93 
917 
Mink, live 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
36 
3,393 
82 
2,719 
Rabbits, live 
304 
4,064 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
18 
355 
24 
586 
Other livestock (see text) 
48 
(X) 
860 
(X) 
Alpacas 
192 
2,537 
170 
1,839 
Table 35. Other Animals and Animal Products - Sales: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
2012 
2007 
Farms 
Number 
Value 
($1,000) 
Farms 
Number 
Honey collected (pounds) (see text) 1 
1,041 
481,862 
1,209 
840 
543,757 
Milk from sheep and goats 
59 
(NA) 
640 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
10 
88 
85 
14 
175 
Deer in captivity 
12 
455 
463 
13 
393 
Elk in captivity 
7 
143 
300 
7 
153 
Alpacas 
51 
313 
381 
35 
130 
Llamas 
44 
101 
55 
87 
289 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
124 
5,727 
50 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
19 
(X) 
15 
263 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
529 
(X) 
3,463 
160 
(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) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
23 
2,101 
65.2 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
33 
6,947 
143.0 
215 
49,773 
128,350 
112.9 
4,053 
775,651 
78.0 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
8 
99 
23.4 
19 
1,112 
1,292 
15.4 
749 
46,006 
12.8 
Cotton, all (bales) 
6 
2,588 
2.2 
69 
25,449 
90,805 
1.9 
471 
258,155 
1.8 
Upland cotton (bales) 
6 
2,588 
2.2 
69 
25,449 
90,805 
1.9 
471 
258,155 
1.8 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
98 
1,405 
62.8 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
21 
(D) 
(D) 
Rice (cwt) 
6 
645 
82.8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
3 
(D) 
(D) 
85.3 
76 
10,962 
72.5 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
10 
375 
48.3 
104 
24,108 
93,755 
36.5 
3,542 
1,111,147 
36.8 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
88 
1,707 
2,795.5 
85 
1,888 
1,990 
2,610.1 
762 
18,217 
1,904.0 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
3 
(D) 
(D) 
29 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,461 
316,948 
61.7 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
3 
(D) 
(D) 
29 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,461 
316,948 
61.7 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
44 
886 
(X) 
253 
3,574 
11,494 
(X) 
39,042 
1,726,532 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
9 
172 
4.0 
16 
59 
190 
3.0 
1,115 
13,875 
3.0 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
6 
113 
3.7 
25 
197 
791 
2.7 
2,073 
77,030 
2.8 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
36 
656 
2.8 
223 
3,092 
9,598 
2.5 
31,926 
1,507,191 
2.1 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5,979 
104,465 
1.8 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
_ 
_ 
_ 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
128 
(D) 
(D) 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
7 
56 
(D) 
(D) 
966 
27,402 
3.9 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
226 
3,217 
(X) 
171 
4,303 
8,351 
(X) 
887 
13,455 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
83 
379 
(X) 
47 
193 
136 
(X) 
589 
2,328 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
162 
374 
(X) 
53 
48 
51 
(X) 
433 
517 
(X) 
26 Tennessee 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
