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Vermont
Agriculture
The tables below offer information about Vermont agriculture from the general agricultural groups to the more specific commodities or products. The ranking assigned to a given commodity is based on the commodity's cash receipts; how much money it made.
Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004
As you can see from the table below, Vermont ranks 41st among the states for total agricultural production.
| Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Group | Value ($1,000) | % State total | State rank |
| All commodities | 581,773 | 100.0% | 41 |
| Livestock & livestock products | 496,846 | 85.4% | 40 |
| Crops | 84,927 | 14.6% | 47 |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Vermont's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004
This table lists Vermont's top commodities in each of Vermont's two agriculutural groups, livestock and crops.
| Vermont's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock products | % State total | Crop products | % State total |
| Dairy products | 74.6% | Greenhouse/nursery | 4.6% |
| Cattle and calves | 8.3% | Hay | 2.7% |
| Chicken eggs | 0.6% | Maple products | 2.3% |
| Turkeys | 0.3% | Apples | 1.7% |
| Hogs | < 0.1% | Corn, sweet | 0.4% |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Almost 3/4 of Vermont's agricultural production is dairy. In the livestock category, the second ranking commodity is cattle and calves. Chicken eggs are a distant third.
Greenhouse and nursery products are Vermont's number one "crop" commodity, followed by hay and maple products.
Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004
This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of Vermont.
| Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product | Value ($1,000) | % State Value | |
| 1. Dairy products | 433,823 | 74.6% | |
| 2. Cattle and calves | 48,238 | 8.3% | |
| 3. Greenhouse/nursery | 26,895 | 4.6% | |
| 4. Hay | 15,746 | 2.7% | |
| 5. Maple products | 13,650 | 2.3% | |
| 6. Apples | 9,823 | 1.7% | |
| 7. Chicken eggs | 3,419 | 0.6% | |
| 8. Corn, sweet | 2,145 | 0.4% | |
| 9. Turkeys | 1,841 | 0.3% | |
| 10. Honey | 592 | 0.1% | |
| 11. Hogs | 287 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 12. Aquaculture | 115 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 13. Farm chickens | 8 | Less than 0.1% | |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
The 2004 table above contains information about Vermont agricultural production provided by the Economic Research Service at the United States Department of Agriculture.
The first column of the table lists the product (commodity).
The second column of the table lists a number representing the dollar value of the product. This number is not the dollar value of the product. This number represents the dollar value of the product in thousands of dollars. For example, the number listed for the value of Vermont dairy products is 433,823. This number represents a dollar value of $433,823,000 (433,823 x 1,000): four hundred and thirty-three million, eight hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars.
The third column of the table lists the percent (part) of the total agricultural value produced in Vermont. For example, dairy products account for 74.6% of Vermont's total agricultural production value. The dollars generated in the state by by dairy products make up almost 3/4 of Vermont's total agricultural production.
National ranking highlights - 2004
- Ranks first in production of maple products (36% of U.S. production).
Vermont farms and farmland - 2004
Because of different rounding methods (e.g., farm acres given by the National Argriculture Statistics Service), percentage of farmland per state should be considered a rough estimate.
| Vermont farms and farmland - 2004 | Number of farms | Total farm acres | Percent of state | Average farm size (acres) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,400 | 1,248,000 | 21% | 195 |
| Source: USDA:National Agriculture Statistics Service | |||
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