Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Tennessee 
Anderson 
Bedford 
Benton 
Bledsoe 
Blount 
Bradley 
Campbell 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
44,908 
293 
951 
254 
409 
691 
494 
282 
acres 
4,546,788 
8,933 
70,961 
25,166 
32,935 
34,544 
24,121 
9,536 
Irrigated 
farms 
2,061 
19 
16 
3 
15 
42 
16 
8 
acres 
145,995 
64 
(D) 
(D) 
838 
(D) 
117 
(D) 
Barley for grain 
farms 
23 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
2 
- 
acres 
2,101 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
bushels 
136,962 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
11 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
9 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
4,301 
4 
47 
39 
39 
39 
15 
11 
acres 
960,721 
(D) 
7,887 
6,944 
3,274 
1,635 
677 
426 
bushels 
81,645,799 
(D) 
326,884 
513,184 
276,128 
190,656 
34,403 
37,100 
Irrigated 
farms 
248 
2 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
56,720 
" 
(D) 
“ 
(D) 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
1 to 24 acres 
1,319 
4 
8 
4 
10 
19 
6 
7 
25 to 99 acres 
1,246 
- 
17 
21 
21 
14 
7 
1 
1 00 to 249 acres 
716 
- 
9 
5 
6 
6 
2 
3 
250 to 499 acres 
461 
- 
9 
5 
1 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
335 
- 
4 
4 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
224 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
776 
- 
19 
4 
11 
17 
16 
6 
acres 
48,509 
- 
1,560 
350 
900 
988 
1,518 
147 
tons 
630,517 
- 
18,190 
2,270 
9,583 
13,825 
18,609 
2,454 
Irrigated 
farms 
27 
- 
4 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1,211 
“ 
293 
“ 
“ 
(D) 
" 
“ 
1 to 24 acres 
330 
- 
6 
1 
4 
10 
6 
4 
25 to 99 acres 
281 
- 
7 
1 
1 
4 
3 
1 
1 00 to 249 acres 
135 
- 
6 
2 
6 
2 
6 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
24 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton, all 
farms 
546 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
376,997 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bales 
701,581 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
75 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
28,037 
“ 
“ 
" 
" 
“ 
" 
“ 
1 to 24 acres 
26 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
84 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
92 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
123 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
98 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
Forage - land used for all hay and 
all haylage, grass silage, and 
123 
greenchop (see text) 
farms 
39,339 
269 
914 
213 
386 
625 
470 
270 
acres 
1,742,486 
8,816 
47,961 
10,797 
23,903 
27,248 
19,142 
8,856 
tons, dry equivalent 
3,729,026 
17,422 
94,397 
20,485 
54,237 
62,161 
45,985 
21,763 
Irrigated 
farms 
297 
3 
4 
- 
2 
11 
2 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
4,460 
41 
56 
“ 
(D) 
50 
(D) 
“ 
1 to 24 acres 
18,352 
158 
357 
75 
138 
302 
244 
148 
25 to 99 acres 
16,748 
91 
439 
108 
181 
244 
180 
110 
1 00 to 249 acres 
3,626 
19 
97 
28 
55 
74 
40 
10 
250 to 499 acres 
519 
1 
16 
2 
6 
4 
6 
1 
500 to 999 acres 
86 
- 
5 
- 
6 
1 
- 
1 
1 ,000 acres or more 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain 
farms 
98 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
1,405 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
88,272 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
84 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
12 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
Peanuts for nuts 
farms 
22 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
26 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
pounds 
30,860 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
" 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
22 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
" 
- 
- 
Rice 
farms 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
acres 
645 
- 
- 
- 
- 
6 
- 
- 
cwt 
53,411 
- 
- 
- 
- 
504 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
acres 
645 
- 
- 
- 
6 
- 
- 
-continued 
456 Tennessee 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
