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Alabama
Agriculture
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 - 2004
As you can see from the table below, Alabama ranks 24th among the states for total agricultural production. Over 80% of Alabama's production is in livestock and livestock products.
| Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Group | Value ($1,000) | % State total | State rank |
| All commodities | 4,103,235 | 100.0% | 24 |
| Livestock products | 3,368,538 | 82.1% | 13 |
| Crops | 734,697 | 17.9% | 34 |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Alabama's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004
This table lists Alabama's top commodities in each of Alabama's two agriculutural groups, livestock and crops.
| Alabama's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock products | % State total | Crop products | % State total |
| Broilers (9-12 week old chickens) | 58.7% | Greenhouse/nursery | 6.4% |
| Cattle and calves | 11.4% | Cotton | 4.7% |
| Chicken eggs | 7.0% | Peanuts | 2.6% |
| Aquaculture | 2.5% | Corn for grain | 1.1% |
| Dairy products | 1.1% | Soybeans | 1.0% |
| 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. They account for over 1/2 of the state's total agricultural production. Cattle and calves are important to the state too. Eggs, aquaculture(farm-raised catfish, hybrid striped bass), and dairy products round out the top five commodities in the livestock products category.
Greenhouse and nursery products are the most valuable "crop" products to the state. Cotton and peanuts are important too, followed by corn for grain and soybeans.
Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004
This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of Alabama.
| Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product | Value ($1,000) | % State Value | |
| 1. Broilers (9-12 week old chickens) | 2,406,976 | 58.7% | |
| 2. Cattle and calves | 469,323 | 11.4% | |
| 3. Chicken eggs | 287,956 | 7.0% | |
| 4. Greenhouse/nursery | 263,092 | 6.4% | |
| 5. Cotton | 193,535 | 4.7% | |
| 6. Peanuts | 105,311 | 2.6% | |
| 7. Aquaculture | 101,198 | 2.5% | |
| 8. Dairy products | 43,497 | 1.1% | |
| 9. Corn for grain | 43,468 | 1.1% | |
| 10. Soybeans | 40,089 | 1.0% | |
| 11. Hay | 17,906 | 0.4% | |
| 12. Hogs | 16,408 | 0.4% | |
| 13. Tomatoes | 11,902 | 0.3% | |
| 14. Wheat | 10,045 | 0.2% | |
| 15. Sweet potatoes | 9,363 | 0.2% | |
| 16. Farm chickens | 7,905 | 0.2% | |
| 17. Peaches | 6,610 | 0.2% | |
| 18. Cucumbers | 2,312 | 0.1% | |
| 19. Watermelons | 2,074 | 0.1% | |
| 20. Potatoes | 1,982 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 21. Corn, sweet | 1,513 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 22. Honey | 1,462 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 23. Pecans | 1,294 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 24. Blueberries | 699 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 25. Sorghum grain | 489 | Less than 0.1% | |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
The 2004 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 2,406,976. This number represents a dollar value of $2,406,976,000 (2,406,976 x 1,000): two billion, four hundred and six million, nine hundred and seventy-six 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 58.7% 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 - 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.
| Alabama farms and farmland - 2004 | Number of farms | Total farm acres | Percent of state | Average farm size (acres) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44,000 | 8,712,000 | 27% | 198 |
| Source: USDA:National Agriculture Statistics Service | |||
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