Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Hampden 
Hampshire 
Middlesex 
Nantucket 
Norfolk 
Plymouth 
Suffolk 
Worcester 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
344 
525 
506 
11 
125 
568 
17 
1,048 
acres 
9,335 
19,263 
9,672 
(D) 
2,765 
15,587 
(D) 
27,333 
Irrigated 
farms 
86 
132 
223 
9 
58 
368 
15 
227 
acres 
768 
(D) 
1,604 
(D) 
582 
11,949 
(D) 
1,309 
Barley for grain 
farms 
- 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
64 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
- 
1,299 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
2 
19 
7 
- 
- 
3 
- 
4 
acres 
(D) 
1,472 
164 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
71 
bushels 
(D) 
229,266 
26,887 
- 
- 
908 
- 
11,584 
Irrigated 
farms 
1 
1 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
8 
“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
1 to 24 acres 
1 
7 
6 
- 
- 
3 
- 
3 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
100 to 249 acres 
1 
3 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
17 
16 
15 
- 
- 
4 
- 
36 
acres 
1,159 
1,238 
630 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
1,740 
tons 
21,397 
22,855 
12,550 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
29,212 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
2 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
" 
" 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
(D) 
1 to 24 acres 
9 
5 
7 
- 
- 
2 
- 
14 
25 to 99 acres 
3 
5 
5 
- 
- 
2 
- 
17 
100 to 249 acres 
4 
6 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
250 to 499 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas 
farms 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
(□) 
- 
- 
cwt 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
(D) 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
Forage - land used for all hay and 
all haylage, grass silage, and 
greenchop (see text) 
farms 
184 
270 
191 
2 
36 
129 
- 
569 
acres 
5,545 
9,482 
5,491 
(D) 
1,543 
2,399 
- 
20,754 
tons, dry equivalent 
10,792 
18,020 
11,635 
(D) 
2,759 
3,650 
- 
48,042 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
2 
3 
6 
2 
- 
10 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
" 
(D) 
3 
21 
(D) 
“ 
66 
1 to 24 acres 
119 
140 
127 
2 
17 
110 
- 
361 
25 to 99 acres 
54 
105 
50 
- 
18 
13 
- 
151 
100 to 249 acres 
9 
25 
13 
- 
- 
6 
- 
50 
250 to 499 acres 
2 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
3 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain 
farms 
- 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans 
farms 
- 
7 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
acres 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
- 
4 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco 
farms 
7 
9 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
acres 
329 
62 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
pounds 
472,687 
110,672 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
4 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
84 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
-continued 
266 Massachusetts 2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
