Table 79. Five-Year Production Plan - Exempt Organic Farms: 2014 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Geographic 
area 
Increase 
organic production 
Maintain current level 
of organic production 
Decrease 
organic production 
Farms 
Percent of 
farms 
Farms 
Percent of 
farms 
Farms 
Percent of 
farms 
United States 
610 
43 
476 
33 
77 
5 
Alabama 
9 
69 
4 
31 
_ 
_ 
Alaska 
3 
30 
7 
70 
- 
- 
Arkansas 
1 
13 
2 
25 
- 
- 
California 
62 
36 
46 
27 
13 
8 
Colorado 
11 
48 
8 
35 
- 
- 
Connecticut 
28 
63 
6 
14 
3 
7 
Delaware 
1 
25 
1 
25 
2 
50 
Florida 
8 
40 
7 
35 
- 
- 
Georgia 
17 
55 
7 
22 
- 
- 
Flawaii 
16 
39 
22 
54 
- 
- 
Idaho 
_ 
_ 
4 
40 
_ 
_ 
Illinois 
20 
59 
11 
32 
3 
9 
Indiana 
16 
52 
5 
16 
- 
- 
Iowa 
12 
63 
5 
26 
- 
- 
Kansas 
2 
33 
4 
67 
- 
- 
Kentucky 
10 
48 
5 
24 
2 
9 
Louisiana 
- 
- 
4 
44 
- 
- 
Maine 
19 
27 
29 
41 
7 
10 
Maryland 
3 
30 
4 
40 
- 
- 
Massachusetts 
26 
54 
15 
31 
- 
- 
Michigan 
21 
48 
13 
30 
4 
9 
Minnesota 
17 
46 
12 
32 
- 
- 
Missouri 
15 
47 
10 
31 
1 
3 
Montana 
2 
23 
4 
44 
- 
- 
Nebraska 
2 
50 
2 
50 
- 
- 
Nevada 
3 
100 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
New Hampshire 
11 
29 
16 
42 
7 
18 
New Jersey 
10 
40 
11 
44 
1 
4 
New Mexico 
- 
- 
2 
19 
- 
- 
New York 
39 
63 
19 
31 
- 
- 
North Carolina 
31 
49 
10 
16 
4 
6 
Ohio 
22 
52 
11 
26 
1 
2 
Oklahoma 
3 
30 
2 
20 
- 
- 
Oregon 
18 
27 
34 
52 
2 
3 
Pennsylvania 
3 
13 
10 
38 
4 
15 
Rhode Island 
_ 
_ 
1 
100 
_ 
_ 
South Carolina 
10 
100 
- 
- 
- 
- 
South Dakota 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tennessee 
4 
17 
9 
37 
3 
13 
Texas 
31 
55 
17 
30 
2 
4 
Vermont 
18 
50 
9 
25 
3 
8 
Virginia 
13 
46 
13 
46 
- 
- 
Washington 
27 
37 
25 
34 
13 
19 
West Virginia 
8 
73 
3 
27 
- 
- 
Wisconsin 
38 
40 
47 
49 
2 
2 
--continued 
538 2014 OS - Exempt Organic Farm Data 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
