Table 24. Selected Crops Harvested: 2012 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Vermont 
Addison 
Bennington 
Caledonia 
Chittenden 
Essex 
Franklin 
Harvested cropland 
farms 
4,619 
571 
157 
370 
328 
66 
465 
acres 
446,020 
119,053 
9,959 
26,616 
22,307 
7,680 
74,966 
Irrigated 
farms 
758 
70 
41 
46 
99 
8 
32 
acres 
3,333 
(D) 
328 
66 
505 
9 
(D) 
Barley for grain 
farms 
4 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
acres 
304 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
bushels 
19,146 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 00 to 249 acres 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
" 
- 
- 
Corn for grain 
farms 
105 
21 
5 
1 
7 
1 
28 
acres 
11,059 
3,200 
155 
(D) 
493 
(D) 
4,442 
bushels 
1,428,893 
357,391 
16,193 
(D) 
64,444 
(D) 
642,873 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
‘ 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
31 
1 
2 
1 
- 
- 
7 
25 to 99 acres 
37 
9 
3 
- 
4 
- 
7 
1 00 to 249 acres 
25 
7 
- 
- 
3 
1 
8 
250 to 499 acres 
10 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
500 to 999 acres 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Corn for silage or greenchop 
farms 
566 
127 
15 
47 
23 
9 
129 
acres 
80,231 
23,250 
1,431 
3,311 
3,232 
1,026 
21,316 
tons 
1,522,569 
373,869 
20,120 
63,582 
64,886 
17,179 
444,227 
Irrigated 
farms 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
87 
" 
" 
“ 
" 
" 
87 
1 to 24 acres 
119 
19 
6 
14 
3 
1 
12 
25 to 99 acres 
221 
45 
4 
25 
7 
4 
56 
1 00 to 249 acres 
139 
36 
4 
6 
8 
3 
38 
250 to 499 acres 
55 
14 
1 
1 
5 
1 
14 
500 to 999 acres 
25 
11 
- 
1 
- 
- 
7 
1 ,000 acres or more 
7 
2 
- 
- 
2 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas 
farms 
20 
1 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
48 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
cwt 
177 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
8 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
20 
1 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
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 
3,364 
443 
89 
292 
195 
44 
396 
acres 
337,694 
88,251 
7,364 
22,476 
17,295 
5,949 
47,904 
tons, dry equivalent 
1,005,411 
287,058 
12,983 
55,766 
46,139 
33,322 
192,848 
Irrigated 
farms 
37 
8 
4 
1 
- 
- 
3 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
682 
(D) 
4 
(D) 
“ 
" 
421 
1 to 24 acres 
1,046 
81 
30 
110 
72 
8 
100 
25 to 99 acres 
1,330 
159 
26 
106 
72 
24 
140 
1 00 to 249 acres 
663 
94 
27 
60 
34 
3 
110 
250 to 499 acres 
232 
64 
5 
10 
14 
9 
34 
500 to 999 acres 
69 
29 
1 
6 
3 
- 
9 
1 ,000 acres or more 
24 
16 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
Oats for grain 
farms 
18 
6 
1 
7 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
125 
13 
(D) 
66 
(D) 
- 
- 
bushels 
8,540 
440 
(D) 
4,970 
(D) 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
‘ 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
17 
6 
1 
7 
1 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans 
farms 
35 
13 
- 
2 
1 
- 
9 
acres 
4,478 
2,858 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
797 
bushels 
222,023 
143,176 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
42,488 
Irrigated 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
1 to 24 acres 
10 
1 
- 
2 
- 
- 
2 
25 to 99 acres 
11 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
1 00 to 249 acres 
10 
4 
- 
- 
1 
- 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
3 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
500 to 999 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 acres or more 
1 
1 
- 
- 
Sugarbeets for sugar 
farms 
6 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
6 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
tons 
48 
48 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated 
farms 
6 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
6 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
-continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - County Data Vermont 265 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
