UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
• May 19hQ 
FARM PRODUCTION, FARM DISPOSITION, AND VALUE. OF 
FIELD AND SEED CROPS, 19U6-U7 : 
This is one in a series of annual reports relating to farm disposition of 
crops, livestock, and livestock products. This report includes estimates of 
grains, hay, seeds, potatoes, and some other commodities. Estimates for fruits 
and tree nuts were published in February 191*8. Estimates for cotton and cotton- 
seed were published with the May 7 Cotton Report; those for tobacco, sugar beets 
and sugarcane for sugar are published in the General Crop Report released on May 
10. The reports on chickens and eggs and turkeys were published in March; milk 
and meat animals in Aprilo 
The production estimates for 19h& and 19^7 shown in this report are the 
same as published in the December 19U7 Annual Summary of Crop Production,, Es- 
timates of farm disposition relate to portions of the crop used or to be used for 
the designated purposes on farms where produced. Portions of crops shown as fed 
to livestock represent only quantities fed on the farms' that produced the crop 
in the given year and do not represent total quantities of crops ultimately used 
for livestock feeding Sales, and household use if any, for the principal feed 
crops, are estimated directly, and the quantity used for' feed and seed is residual 
(production less household use and sales), and grain purchased for such purposes 
is not included. Some of the products shown as "sold" from farms are used for 
feed or seed on other farms in the same State or other States. For certain crops, 
total seed requirements are shown as well as the amount of such seed used on farms 
where produced. 
The estimates of farm disposition of crops are based upon, data collected 
from many sources,, Wherever possible sales have been checked by enumerations, 
such as reports of processors, or by records of handlings such as' shipments by 
rail and boat, and' by truck. Many items of farm use are estimated from return's 
for individual farms from special disposition inquiries relating to individual 
crops. In these inquiries farmers are asked to report the quantities of the 
crops produced and the quantities used on the farm for each purpose. Sales are 
estimated directly for some crops on the basis of inquiries asking farmers to 1 
report quantities produced and quantities sold. For certain crops of which there 
is practically no farm utilization the entire production is shown as sales. 
The value of sales for each crop is the designated quantity used for each 
purpose multiplied by the season average price per unit of measure. In like 
manner, value of production and value of home consumption are obtained by apply- 
ing the season average price of the portion sold to total production and to home 
consumption. , These value estimates should not be confused with cash receipts 
which relate to the calendar' year, irrespective of the' year of production. 
The season average prices are, in most cases, the estimated mid-month 
prices weighted by the estimated quantities sold in each month of the crop mar- 
keting season The marketing season is shown below the' tables for each- crop* 
Season average prices for popcorn, broomcorn, sugarcane for sirup, maple products, 
hops, and most of the grass and cover-crop seeds are based primarily on special 
surveys. Sbr sugarcane sirup (except Louisiana) and sorghum sirup, prices are 
season average prices as reported December 1 of each year c Price estimating pro- 
cedure makes allowance for loans unredeemed at end of crop season if of signif- 
icant volume. 
