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 
1,806 
14,334 
1,020 
10,822 
Llamas 
424 
2,391 
665 
3,819 
Bison 
19 
1,037 
50 
1,133 
Mink, live 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
5 
(D) 
15 
505 
Rabbits, live 
290 
6,241 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
1 
(D) 
12 
94 
Other livestock (see text) 
26 
(X) 
714 
(X) 
Alpacas 
337 
5,453 
296 
4,883 
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 
1,092 
317,058 
1,006 
587 
300,763 
Milk from sheep and goats 
65 
(NA) 
621 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
6 
310 
626 
17 
267 
Deer in captivity 
1 
(D) 
(□) 
2 
(D) 
Elk in captivity 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Alpacas 
67 
383 
685 
82 
423 
Llamas 
40 
129 
92 
92 
386 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
105 
9,146 
137 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
18 
(X) 
(D) 
220 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
399 
(X) 
3,094 
207 
(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) 
16 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
576 
36,591 
78.4 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
33 
1,266 
161.2 
152 
14,235 
39,964 
113.4 
2,672 
282,667 
97.8 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
18 
1,245 
17.4 
45 
2,868 
6,250 
16.2 
1,573 
102,696 
15.0 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
15 
829 
5,968 
2.1 
252 
82,275 
2.2 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
15 
829 
5,968 
2.1 
252 
82,275 
2.2 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
143 
(D) 
(D) 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
3 
249 
(D) 
7 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
160 
18,492 
3,964.2 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
96 
4,043 
63.8 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
12 
737 
55.6 
106 
9,561 
43,606 
42.3 
2,394 
524,948 
38.8 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
136 
5,684 
2,599.5 
87 
4,230 
2,831 
2,341.4 
335 
10,237 
2,136.4 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
7 
469 
60.6 
38 
1,508 
7,501 
61.2 
1,556 
232,501 
61.2 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
7 
469 
60.6 
38 
1,508 
7,501 
61.2 
1,554 
230,730 
61.2 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
1,771 
58.4 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
29 
2,202 
(X) 
148 
1,843 
7,693 
(X) 
25,752 
1,301,459 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
9 
268 
3.3 
22 
(D) 
(D) 
3.4 
2,629 
70,382 
3.0 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
12 
412 
3.9 
8 
59 
164 
3.1 
1,644 
55,314 
2.8 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
23 
1,786 
2.0 
111 
1,092 
4,868 
2.4 
19,176 
978,116 
2.1 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
4,273 
(D) 
(□) 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
7 
189 
7.6 
12 
125 
163 
8.8 
468 
17,596 
6.0 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
4 
36 
(D) 
5 
20 
60 
(D) 
1,419 
65,167 
3.8 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
409 
7,105 
(X) 
219 
3,009 
3,372 
(X) 
1,028 
7,586 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
174 
1,017 
(X) 
86 
1,459 
1,718 
(X) 
1,105 
14,919 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
250 
406 
(X) 
61 
34 
63 
(X) 
489 
618 
(X) 
26 Virginia 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
