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[Agriculture Fact Book 98]
The top 10 States in cash receipts for all commodities in 1996 were California, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin. The share of total cash receipts derived from crop or livestock sales varied greatly among these 10 top-ranked States.
California led the Nation in crop sales with $17.1 billion, and was the top producing State for 8 of the sector’s top 25 commodities: dairy products, greenhouse and nursery products, eggs, hay, grapes, tomatoes, lettuce, and almonds. California vaulted from third to first place in egg sales with a 27-percent rise in a single year. Three-quarters of California’s farm sales were from crops; fruits and nuts 27 percent, vegetables 23 percent, and greenhouse and nursery 10 percent.
Florida’s pattern of cash receipts is similar to California’s, with vegetables, fruits and nuts, and greenhouse and nursery accounting for 69 percent of agricultural sales. By contrast, 60 percent of Texas’ cash receipts were from livestock, and two-thirds of that was cattle and calves. More than 8 percent of the Nation’s livestock sales value was attributed to Texas. Iowa’s cash receipts are mostly opposite those of Texas, as crops comprise 58 percent of the total and livestock 42 percent. Feed grains and oilseeds represented 56 percent of Iowa’s 1996 sales, while hogs accounted for 23 percent. Iowa leads the Nation in both corn and hog sales.
Cattle and calves remained the top ranked commodity in generation of cash receipts for 1996, even though their sales fell by $2.9 billion or 8.4 percent. In fact, the sales of cattle and calves have declined by $8.2 billion or 21 percent since 1993 due to lower prices. Texas led in cattle and calf receipts with $5.3 billion, down 1 billion dollars (15%) from the prior year. Nebraska ($4.1 billion) and Kansas ($4 billion) were the second and third leading producers of cattle. An extensive set of ranking tables is available on the ERS World Wide Web site (www.ers.usda.gov).
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