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 
454 
8,624 
276 
7,632 
Llamas 
145 
536 
171 
720 
Bison 
4 
108 
4 
170 
Mink, live 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Deer in captivity 
12 
256 
14 
1,056 
Rabbits, live 
103 
9,337 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Elk in captivity 
4 
(D) 
3 
(D) 
Other livestock (see text) 
15 
(X) 
21 
(X) 
Alpacas 
152 
2,856 
93 
1,650 
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)' 
280 
422,983 
897 
185 
361,715 
Milk from sheep and goats 
76 
(NA) 
3,362 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Bison 
3 
8 
13 
2 
(D) 
Deer in captivity 
3 
31 
37 
3 
(D) 
Elk in captivity 
2 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
Alpacas 
42 
202 
709 
33 
248 
Llamas 
11 
90 
96 
24 
103 
Mink, live (see text) 
- 
- 
- 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Rabbits, live (see text) 
33 
14,526 
226 
(NA) 
(NA) 
Other livestock (see text) 
7 
(X) 
7 
14 
(X) 
Other livestock products 1 
104 
(X) 
395 
76 
(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) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
304 
63.0 
Corn for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
105 
11,059 
129.2 
Corn for silage or greenchop (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
3 
87 
203 
20.6 
563 
79,941 
19.0 
Cotton, all (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Upland cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Pima cotton (bales) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas (cwt) 
7 
(D) 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
12 
39 
3.6 
Oats for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
18 
125 
68.3 
Peanuts for nuts (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Rice (cwt) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sorghum for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
35 
4,478 
49.6 
Sugarbeets for sugar (tons) 
6 
6 
8.0 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane for sugar (tons) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco (pounds) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wheat for grain, all (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
16 
339 
53.4 
Winter wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
15 
269 
54.7 
Durum wheat for grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Spring wheat for 
grain (bushels) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
70 
48.3 
Forage - land used for all hay and all 
haylage, grass silage, and greenchop 
(tons, dry equivalent) (see text) 
2 
(D) 
(X) 
35 
(D) 
(D) 
(X) 
3,327 
335,398 
(X) 
Alfalfa hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
4 
18 
(D) 
(D) 
428 
(D) 
(D) 
Small grain hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
84 
(D) 
(D) 
Tame hay other than alfalfa, small 
grain, and wild hay (tons, dry) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
20 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,716 
109,604 
2.3 
Wild hay (tons, dry) 
- 
- 
- 
7 
(D) 
(D) 
1.7 
872 
37,580 
1.7 
Haylage or greenchop from alfalfa or 
alfalfa mixtures (tons, green) 
. 
. 
. 
5 
100 
115 
5.2 
365 
58,376 
7.3 
All other haylage, grass silage, 
and greenchop (tons, green) 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
3 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
826 
116,938 
6.7 
Land in vegetables (see text) 
166 
584 
(X) 
86 
591 
830 
(X) 
537 
1,694 
(X) 
Land in orchards (see text) 
21 
126 
(X) 
15 
244 
379 
(X) 
342 
1,611 
(X) 
Land in berries (see text) 
85 
222 
(X) 
36 
57 
54 
(X) 
414 
416 
(X) 
26 Vermont 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
