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Floriculture
Floriculture
Statistics
Massachusetts Flower Growers Association (MFGA) News - Board of Directors for 2008: President - Fred Dabney, Quanset Nursery, Vice-President -David Volante, Volante Farms. Past President - Tom Mahoney, Mahoney's Garden Centers, Board members include Chris Graziano, Graziano Gardens, East Springfield; Kirby Taranto, D&D Farms, Stow; Bruce Slater, Great Brook Farms, Bolton;.Amalie Ann George, CPA, PC, Needham; Leanne Araujo, Araujo Farms, Dighton; Jason Hutchins, The Flower Hutch, Townsend; John Conners, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation, Ashland; Cynthia Bertrand, The Farmer's Daughter, Auburn.; Bob Hawkes, Griffin Greenhouse and Nursery Supplies, Tewksbury; David Giurleo, Colonial Gardens, Concord; Ed Bemis, Bemis Farms Nursery, Spencer; Mike Dairymple, Northbrook Greenhouses, Berlin.
Massachusetts Floriculture Statistics
A recent study (January, 2006) of the impact of the Environmental Horticulture Industry on the New England economy is available at http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/nesurvey/index.htm
- Flower Power in Massachusetts
- Wholesale floriculture and nursery production is 34.2
percent of cash receipts for agricultural crops.
- Greenhouse and nursery production is ranked
2nd in New England in cash receipts for all agricultural
commodities. Dairy is number one.
- Massachusetts is ranked 19th in
the nation for wholesale value of floriculture crops.
- Flower crop production had a wholesale value
of $77 Million in Massachusetts in 2004.
- There are 10 Million square feet of
greenhouse space devoted to floriculture in Massachusetts and this figure
is growing all the time.
- There are 400 acres of field production in
floriculture in Massachusetts.
- Each household in the northeast
spends an average of $44 annually.
- Land and building in floriculture production in Massachusetts is valued
at $320 Million.
- The amount of payroll paid to hired labor in Floriculture in Massachusetts
in 2001 was $45 Million.
- There were 5,000 employees hired
in wholesale Floriculture industry in Massachusetts.
- There were over 5 Million geraniums
grown and sold by Massachusetts Flower Growers in 2004.
- The wholesale value of poinsettias grown and sold by Massachusetts
growers was $4 Million in 2004.
- There were $10 Million wholesale value of
annual bedding plants grown and sold by mass growers in 2004.
- Potted Herbaceous perennials valued at $7 Million
were grown and sold by Mass growers in 2004.
Sources: New England
Agricultural Statistics Service, May 19, 2005 report for CT & MA,
USDA Floriculture Crops
2001 Summary, USDA
Floriculture and Nursery Crops Outlook, September 2002, 1997 Census
of Agriculture, Census
of Horticultural Specialties (1998).
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