Table 41. Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagative Materials 
Grown for Sale: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Crops 
Under glass or other pretection 
In the open 
Value of sales 
Farms 
Square feet 
Farms 
Acres 
Farms 
Dollars 
Aquatic plants 
2012 
1 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
3 
5,800 
2007 
2 
(D) 
6 
(D) 
7 
(D) 
Bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers-dry 
2012 
3 
8,800 
17 
25 
18 
(D) 
2007 
4 
1,766 
10 
6 
11 
42,678 
Cuttings, seedlings, liners, and plugs 
(see text) 
2012 
10 
14,894 
13 
213 
21 
5,677,705 
2007 
12 
59,386 
14 
172 
21 
2,295,640 
Floriculture crops - 
bedding/garden plants, cut flowers and 
cut florist greens, foliage plants, potted 
flowering plants, and other floriculture and 
bedding crops, total 
2012 
132 
3,004,778 
129 
184 
216 
18,043,683 
2007 
131 
2,543,412 
107 
199 
205 
13,063,847 
Bedding/garden plants 
2012 
93 
1,968,316 
91 
144 
163 
14,243,178 
2007 
88 
1 ,824,424 
79 
98 
148 
9,547,006 
Cut flowers and cut florist greens 
2012 
13 
46,150 
17 
10 
24 
172,236 
2007 
4 
52,540 
10 
9 
12 
(D) 
Foliage plants, indoor 
2012 
25 
305,551 
6 
3 
27 
620,532 
2007 
29 
(D) 
8 
(D) 
34 
(D) 
Potted flowering plants 
2012 
41 
681,021 
16 
13 
48 
2,947,667 
2007 
50 
496,268 
23 
84 
64 
2,579,078 
Other floriculture and bedding crops 
2012 
7 
3,740 
13 
15 
18 
60,070 
2007 
1 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
Flower seeds 
2012 
_ 
_ 
5 
4 
5 
6,480 
2007 
3 
340 
1 
(D) 
4 
3,748 
Greenhouse fruits and berries (see text) 
2012 
5 
6,800 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
31,114 
2007 
1 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
Total greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
60 
179,094 
(X) 
(X) 
60 
1,013,352 
2007 
36 
238,544 
(X) 
(X) 
36 
1,440,580 
2012 farms by area: 
1 to 999 square feet 
15 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
15 
(D) 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 square feet 
8 
13,100 
(X) 
(X) 
8 
20,730 
2,000 to 2,999 square feet 
21 
48,594 
(X) 
(X) 
21 
173,850 
3,000 to 3,999 square feet 
5 
18,200 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
50,360 
4,000 to 5,999 square feet 
2 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
6,000 to 9,999 square feet 
5 
37,680 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
401,535 
10,000 or more square feet 
4 
49,500 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
295,000 
Greenhouse tomatoes 
2012 
45 
146,258 
(X) 
(X) 
45 
885,882 
2007 
31 
202,745 
(X) 
(X) 
31 
1,154,188 
Other greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
28 
32,836 
(X) 
(X) 
28 
127,470 
2007 
11 
35,799 
(X) 
(X) 
11 
286,392 
Mushrooms 
2012 
3 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
(D) 
2007 
1 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
Nursery stock crops (see text) 
2012 
61 
691,701 
158 
1,000 
180 
24,827,959 
2007 ^ 
59 
760,614 
198 
1,525 
208 
16,972,224 
Sod harvested 
2012 
(X) 
(X) 
42 
4,899 
42 
11,201,761 
2007 
(X) 
(X) 
57 
6,621 
57 
11,201,633 
2012 farms by area: 
0 to 14.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
24 
6 
66,040 
15.0 to 49.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
21 
516 
21 
1,313,673 
50.0 to 99.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
570 
5 
1,367,000 
250.0 to 399.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
400.0 to 749.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
2,572 
6 
4,906,548 
750.0 acres or more 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
Vegetable seeds 
2012 
- 
- 
21 
39 
21 
70,860 
2007 
3 
1,525 
8 
45 
11 
74,929 
Vegetable transplants 
2012 
10 
15,652 
5 
4 
15 
48,612 
2007 
10 
31,760 
4 
1 
14 
86,500 
' 2007 data do not include Other nursery stock. 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data Mississippi 33 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
