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 
848 
10,083 
457 
7,009 
Llamas 
109 
300 
185 
527 
Bison 
16 
131 
28 
152 
Mink, live 
2 
(D) 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
10 
378 
34 
780 
Rabbits, live 
191 
2,508 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
1 
(D) 
- 
- 
Other livestock (see text) 
33 
(X) 
411 
(X) 
Alpacas 
79 
832 
58 
508 
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)' 
499 
461,123 
1,244 
239 
234,332 
Milk from sheep and goats 
35 
(NA) 
442 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
3 
7 
14 
7 
15 
Deer in captivity 
1 
(□) 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Alpacas 
15 
96 
209 
8 
33 
Llamas 
6 
9 
6 
27 
37 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
45 
3,488 
23 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
14 
(X) 
(D) 
154 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
175 
(X) 
2,249 
53 
(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) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
15 
729 
55.8 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
92 
9,283 
171.3 
223 
41,330 
62,412 
136.6 
2,134 
196,785 
100.8 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
14 
834 
20.3 
14 
1,663 
849 
18.7 
84 
7,705 
14.2 
Cotton, all (bales) 
16 
3,277 
2.3 
111 
21,568 
51,385 
2.1 
656 
223,806 
1.9 
Upland cotton (bales) 
16 
3,277 
2.3 
111 
21,568 
51,385 
2.1 
656 
223,806 
1.9 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
4 
194 
67.1 
14 
114 
502 
83.3 
310 
14,654 
48.2 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
21 
4,774 
4,657.9 
74 
8,468 
17,016 
4,226.0 
398 
76,488 
Rice (cwt) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
5 
70 
124.3 
8 
281 
722 
71.1 
130 
12,939 
46.3 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
24 
2,738 
41.5 
83 
7,800 
29,141 
38.1 
1,653 
329,783 
32.6 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
6 
101 
1,670.0 
4 
270 
2,331 
1,749.4 
126 
9,453 
2,243.0 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
30 
3,557 
56.0 
49 
5,731 
17,461 
56.6 
1,073 
188,959 
51.6 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
30 
3,557 
56.0 
49 
5,731 
17,461 
56.6 
1,073 
188,959 
51.6 
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) 
58 
1,506 
(X) 
146 
4,014 
8,290 
(X) 
7,725 
322,001 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
4 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
121 
2,017 
2.2 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
10 
366 
3.2 
11 
159 
186 
2.7 
818 
24,898 
2.2 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
48 
1,347 
3.5 
115 
3,126 
6,804 
2.8 
6,266 
258,475 
2.2 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
9 
64 
1.3 
5 
11 
72 
1.8 
888 
25,054 
1.2 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
8 
(D) 
(D) 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
10 
277 
6.7 
7 
(D) 
(D) 
10.0 
273 
13,707 
2.5 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
333 
16,090 
(X) 
147 
1,152 
867 
(X) 
927 
7,264 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
141 
7,788 
(X) 
76 
3,282 
2,988 
(X) 
905 
9,001 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
175 
639 
(X) 
32 
61 
47 
(X) 
341 
702 
(X) 
26 South Carolina 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
