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Alabama
Agriculture: 2012
The tables below offer information about Alabama 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: 2012
As you can see from the table below, Alabama ranks 25th among the states for total agricultural production. Over 70% of Alabama's production is in livestock and livestock products.
| Commodity groups cash receipts: 2012 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Group | Value ($1,000) | % of state total | Rank among states |
| All commodities | 5,349,114 | 100% | 25th |
| Livestock products | 3,929,392 | 73.5% | 16th |
| Crops | 1,419,722 | 26.5% | 33rd |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Alabama's top five commodities by cash receipts: 2012
This table lists Alabama's top commodities in each general agriculutural group, livestock and crops.
| Alabama's top five commodities by cash receipts: 2012 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock products | % of state total | Crop products | % of state total |
| Broilers (9-12 week old chickens) | 52.5% | Peanuts | 5.5% |
| Cattle & calves | 10.0% | Cotton lint | 5.3% |
| Chicken eggs | 6.6% | Corn | 3.5% |
| Aquaculture | 2.1% | Soybeans | 3.3% |
| Hogs | 0.7% | Wheat | 1.5% |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Alabama's agricultural production is found, for the most part, in the livestock and livestock products category. The state's number one agricultural commodity is broilers, chickens that are 9 to 12 weeks old. They account for over 1/2 of the state's total agricultural production. Cattle and calves are important to the state too. Eggs, aquaculture(25 farm raised species, incuding channel catfish, tilapia, shrimp, crawfish, ornamental and game fish), and hogs round out the top five commodities in the livestock products category.
Peanuts and cotton share the spotlight as the most valuable "crop" products produced in the State of Alabama. Corn for grain and soybeans are important too. Wheat finishes off the top five crop products of the state.
Leading commodities for cash receipts: 2012
This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of Alabama.
| Leading commodities for cash receipts: 2012 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product | Value ($1,000) | % of state total | |
| 1.Broilers (9-12 week old chickens) | 2,810,100 | 52.5% | |
| 2.Cattle & calves | 536,122 | 10.0% | |
| 3.Chicken eggs | 351,929 | 6.6% | |
| 4.Peanuts | 293,441 | 5.5% | |
| 5.Cotton lint | 282,891 | 5.3% | |
| 6.Corn | 189,765 | 3.5% | |
| 7.Soybeans | 178,308 | 3.3% | |
| 8.Aquaculture | 110,581 | 2.1% | |
| 9.Wheat | 80,470 | 1.5% | |
| 10.Hay | 40,591 | 0.8% | |
| 11.Hogs | 40,065 | 0.7% | |
| 12.Cottonseed | 35,002 | 0.7% | |
| 13.Dairy products, milk | 28,296 | 0.5% | |
| 14.Tomatoes | 12,730 | 0.2% | |
| 15.Farm chickens | 11,952 | 0.2% | |
| 16.Sweet potatoes | 9,782 | 0.2% | |
| 17.Pecans | 5,258 | 0.1% | |
| 18.Peaches | 4,960 | 0.1% | |
| 19.Watermelons | 3,955 | 0.1% | |
| 20.Sweet corn | 1,757 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 21.Oats | 1,702 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 22.Blueberries | 1,484 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 23.Honey | 1,050 | Less than 0.1% | |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
The 2012 table above contains information about Alabama 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 broilers produced in Alabama is 2,810,100. This number represents a dollar value of $2,810,100,000 (2,810,100 x 1,000): two billion, eight hundred and ten million, one hundred thousand dollars.
The third column of the table lists the percent (part) of the total agricultural value produced in Alabama. For example, broilers account for 52.5% of Alabama's total agricultural production value. The dollars generated by the production of broilers add up to over 1/2 of Alabama's total agricultural production.
Alabama farms and farmland: 2012
Because of different rounding methods (e.g., farm acres given by the National Agriculture Statistics Service), percentage of farmland per state should be considered a rough estimate.
| Alabama farms and farmland: 2012 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of farms | Total farm acres | Percent of state | Average farm size (acres) |
| 43,223 | 8,902,654 | 26.53% | 206 |
| Source: USDA:National Agriculture Statistics Service 2012 Census of Agriculture, Table 1 | |||
| Farms by legal status for tax purposes: 2012 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family / individual | % of whole | Partnership | % of whole | Corporation | % of whole | Other-cooperative, estate or trust, institutional | % of whole |
| 39,417 | 91% | 2,107 | 5% | 1,316 | 3% | 383 | 1% |
| Source: USDA:National Agriculture Statistics Service 2012 Census of Agriculture, Table 1 | |||||||
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