Table 34. Value of Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Equipment; Total Land Area; Area in Production; and 
Marketing Channels by Kind of Business: 2014 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Sod, 
sprigs, or 
plugs 
(see text) 
Dried bulbs, 
corms, 
rhizomes, 
and tubers 
Food crops 
grown 
under 
protection 
Transplants 
for commercial 
vegetable and 
strawberry 
production 
Vegetable 
seeds 
Flower 
seeds 
Aquatic 
plants 
Cut 
Christmas 
trees 
Other 
kinds of 
businesses 
(see text) 
SHADE STRUCTURE AREA IN PRODUCTION 
- Con. 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
16 
square feet (1,000) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Cut cultivated greens 
operations 
- 
- 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
7 
square feet (1,000) 
- 
- 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
76 
Nursery stock (see text) 
operations 
1 
1 
- 
1 
- 
2 
1 
13 
86 
square feet (1,000) 
All other horticultural specialty 
(D) 
(D) 
” 
(D) 
” 
(D) 
(D) 
59 
1,250 
crops 
operations 
- 
10 
125 
18 
5 
- 
14 
33 
19 
square feet (1,000) 
NATURAL SHADE AREA IN PRODUCTION 
76 
2,264 
(D) 
(D) 
39 
85 
40 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers (see 
text) 
operations 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
acres 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Cut flowers, anthurium (see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, dendrobium orchids (see 
acres 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
' 
text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
" 
" 
- 
Cut flowers, all other (see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants (see text) 
operations 
- 
2 
- 
1 
- 
1 
- 
- 
34 
acres 
" 
(D) 
“ 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
“ 
" 
36 
Potted flowering plants, dendrobium orchids 
(see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants, all other 
acres 
(see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted herbaceous perennial 
acres 
plants 
operations 
4 
2 
4 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
63 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
(Z) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
48 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 
31 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
29 
Foliage plants, pots 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
acres 
" 
" 
" 
5 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
acres 
- 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
Cut cultivated greens 
operations 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
acres 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Nursery stock (see text) 
operations 
- 
1 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
12 
40 
All other horticultural specialty 
acres 
“ 
(D) 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
24 
59 
crops 
operations 
2 
4 
53 
1 
1 
1 
5 
3 
15 
AREA IN THE OPEN IN PRODUCTION 
acres 
(D) 
3 
71 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
2 
5 
11 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers 
(see text) 
operations 
1 
23 
111 
14 
3 
- 
2 
18 
169 
acres 
(D) 
208 
176 
2 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
33 
299 
Cut flowers, anthurium (see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, dendrobium orchids (see 
acres 
text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, all other (see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Potted flowering plants (see text) 
operations 
- 
5 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
93 
acres 
- 
(D) 
7 
- 
- 
- 
3 
187 
Potted flowering plants, dendrobium orchids 
(see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants, all other (see 
acres 
text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted herbaceous perennial 
acres 
plants 
operations 
7 
7 
22 
1 
- 
- 
1 
7 
296 
acres 
5 
12 
19 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
3 
602 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
operations 
1 
- 
25 
1 
- 
- 
2 
166 
acres 
(D) 
- 
18 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
313 
Foliage plants, pots 
operations 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
43 
acres 
" 
(D) 
" 
" 
- 
" 
- 
" 
47 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
acres 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Cut cultivated greens 
operations 
- 
- 
9 
- 
- 
- 
- 
54 
14 
acres 
- 
- 
14 
- 
- 
- 
- 
304 
208 
Nursery stock (see text) 
operations 
30 
3 
11 
3 
7 
3 
5 
293 
294 
All other horticultural specialty 
acres 
2,541 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
236 
4 
4 
9,268 
3,579 
crops 
operations 
1,200 
89 
483 
149 
252 
54 
74 
2,893 
255 
acres 
321,964 
5,038 
26,758 
11,789 
32,379 
5,236 
1,282 
172,429 
6,210 
MARKETING CHANNELS 
Consumers (direct sales) 
operations 
873 
73 
1,167 
130 
71 
35 
48 
2,335 
950 
Retail florists 
operations 
101 
9 
99 
17 
45 
8 
6 
362 
184 
Retail garden centers/nurseries 
operations 
350 
26 
179 
55 
59 
21 
40 
827 
336 
Supermarkets/groceries 
operations 
91 
6 
620 
64 
46 
9 
5 
388 
167 
Other mass marketers 
operations 
150 
16 
186 
40 
67 
13 
6 
490 
116 
-continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture 2014 CHS - United States Data 45 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
