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The Tennessee Field Office of USDA's National Agricultural
Statistics Service is co-located with the Tennessee Department
of Agriculture at Ellington Agricultural Center in Nashville
. The Tennessee Field Office and the Tennessee Department
of Agriculture have operated under a cooperative agreement
since 1927.
Farming dominates the State's landscape, with our 85,000
farms covering 11.6 million acres, or forty-four percent
of the State's 26.4 million land acres. Tennessee ranks fourth
in the number of farms, and our number one commodity in terms
of cash receipts is cattle and calves, followed by broilers,
soybeans, nursery crops, and cotton.
Tennessee's agriculture is as diverse as it's landscape,
producing cattle, hay, goats, vegetables, and tobacco in
the mountainous Eastern Region, to wheat, corn, poultry,
shrimp, equine, nursery crops, and pearls in the rolling
hills of Middle Tennessee to cotton, corn, wheat, sorghum,
and soybeans in the rich farmland of West Tennessee.
The state is second in the nation in equine
and meat goat inventories, and ranks in the top five states
in production of tobacco, hay, fresh market tomatoes, and
snap beans.
More than 14 million acres of farm and non-farm
forest lands produce income of about $370 million in timber
sales annually. This level of production typically keeps
Tennessee in the top five hardwood producing states.
The Tennessee Walking Horse is one of only
two breeds of equine to be named for a State and, in numbers,
is our leading breed.
West Tennessee's famous river city, Memphis, has long been known as a major commodity transportation
point.
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