sections and their data are not included in this 
category. 
Other vegetables. This category includes any 
vegetable not listed on the report form. 
Peak inventory. This is the largest number of 
individual specie of livestock and poultry on the 
operation during 2014. 
Price premium received for products from 
transitioning land. This is the number of farms that 
received a price premium, over conventional price of 
the product, measured in percent, for products that 
were produced on transitional land. 
Primary production challenge. This represents the 
primary challenge as an organic farmer selected by 
the respondent. The choices were regulatory 
problems, price issues, production problems, market 
access, management issues, or other challenges. 
Processed products. This includes products that 
were altered by heat, pressure, and/or freezing 
temperatures. 
Production contract. A verbal or written agreement 
between the producer or grower and a contractor 
(integrator) setting terms, conditions, and fees to be 
paid by the contractor to the operation for the 
production of crops, livestock, or poultry. 
Production expenses. Includes expenses incurred by 
the farm operation for the production of organic 
commodities. This includes the production expenses 
provided by the operators, partners, landlords 
(excluding property taxes), and production 
contractors. 
Livestock purchased or leased . These expenses 
include all breeding livestock and poultry purchased. 
Utilities. These are expenses for the organic portion 
of the farm share cost of electricity, telephone 
charges, internet fees, and water purchased in 2014. 
All other production expenses. This category 
includes all expenses not listed on the report form. 
Examples include animal health costs, storage and 
warehousing, marketing and ginning expenses, 
insurance, etc. Health expenses and payroll taxes 
were excluded. 
Propagative materials sold. This category includes 
dry bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers; cuttings, 
seedlings, liners, and plugs; flower and vegetable 
seeds; tobacco plants sold for transplant to farm 
fields (exclude transplants to be planted on the same 
operation); vegetable transplants sold for transplant 
to farm fields; and sod harvested (acres in the open 
only). 
Transitioning land. This is land in the process of 
becoming organic land that has not yet met the time 
requirement, which is usually 3 years. 
Value-added. Any activity or service occurring after 
agricultural production that adds value. Some 
examples of adding value to commodities produced 
on the farm are: bottling milk; making cheese; 
processing or curing meat; producing wine, cider, 
juice, or jam; butchering livestock; and handcrafting 
milled or ground grains. 
Value of sales. This is the gross value of sales before 
taxes and production expenses of all organic 
agricultural products sold or removed from the place 
in 2014 regardless of who received the payment. The 
gross value of sales is at the commodity level and 
does not include value-added organic products. 
2012 Census of Agriculture Appendix B B-3 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
