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Oregon
Agriculture
The tables below offer information about Oregon 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, Oregon ranks 27 among the states for total agricultural production.
| Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Group | Value ($1,000) | % State total | State rank |
| All commodities | 3,691,554 | 100.0% | 27 |
| Livestock & livestock products | 1,043,635 | 28.3% | 33 |
| Crops | 2,647,918 | 71.1% | 15 |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Oregon's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004
This table lists Oregon's top commodities in each of Oregon's two agriculutural groups, livestock and crops.
| Oregon's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock products | % State total | Crop products | % State total |
| Cattle and calves | 13.8% | Greenhouse/nursery | 25.8% |
| Dairy products | 9.7% | Hay | 7.1% |
| Chicken eggs | 1.3% | Ryegrass | 5.5% |
| Broilers | Wheat | 5.5% | |
| Onions | 2.9% | ||
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Over 70% of Oregon's total agricultural production is produced by a broad range of field, fruit and vegetable crops. Greenhouse and nursery products are the most important, followed by hay. Ryegrass, wheat, and onions round out the top five.
Cattle and calves are the most important livestock products raised in Oregon. Dairy products rank second, followed by chicken eggs. Though the value of broilers is not given by the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, it is included as one of the top 25 products of the state.
Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004
This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of Oregon.
| Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product | Value ($1,000) | % State Value | |
| 1. Greenhouse/nursery | 951,452 | 25.8% | |
| 2. Cattle and calves | 508,910 | 13.8% | |
| 3. Dairy products | 359,520 | 9.7% | |
| 4. Hay | 262,327 | 7.1% | |
| 5. Ryegrass | 204,557 | 5.5% | |
| 6. Wheat | 201,665 | 5.5% | |
| 7. Onions | 107,855 | 2.9% | |
| 8. Potatoes | 99,470 | 2.7% | |
| 9. Fescue | 92,480 | 2.5% | |
| 10. Pears | 72,799 | 2.0% | |
| 11. Hazelnuts (filberts) | 52,992 | 1.4% | |
| 12. Cherries | 49,819 | 1.3% | |
| 13. Chicken eggs | 48,693 | 1.3% | |
| 14. Blackberry group | 37,106 | 1.0% | |
| 15. Grapes | 32,204 | 0.9% | |
| 16. Mint | 29,948 | 0.8% | |
| 17. Corn, sweet | 28,165 | 0.8% | |
| 18. Blueberries | 27,418 | 0.7% | |
| 19. Apples | 24,323 | 0.7% | |
| 20. Beans, snap | 20,655 | 0.6% | |
| 21. Hops | 19,894 | 0.5% | |
| 22. Cranberries | 17,383 | 0.5% | |
| 23. Strawberries | 15,839 | 0.4% | |
| 24. Bluegrass, kentucky | 15,275 | 0.4% | |
| Broilers (9-12 week old chickens) * | |||
| * Commodities at the bottom of the above ranked list of commodities and having no accompanying data would have appeared within the ranked list of leading commodities, but were excluded to avoid disclosure of confidential information about individual producers. | |||
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
The 2004 table above contains information about Oregon 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 greenhouse and nursery products produced in Oregon is 951,452. This number represents a dollar value of $951,452,000 (951,452 x 1,000): nine hundred and fifty-one million, four hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars.
The third column of the table lists the percent (part) of the total agricultural value produced in Oregon. For example, greenhouse and nursery products account for 25.8% of Oregon's total agricultural production value. The dollars generated greenhouse and nursery products add up to a little over 1/4 of Oregon's total agricultural production.
National ranking highlights - 2004
- Ranks first in production of hazlenuts(filberts) (100% of U.S. production).
- Ranks first in production of fescue (100% of U.S. production).
- Ranks first in production of ryegrass (100% of U.S. production).
- Ranks first in production of blackberries (94% of U.S. production).
Oregon 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.
| Oregon farms and farmland - 2004 | Number of farms | Total farm acres | Percent of state | Average farm size (acres) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40,000 | 17,200,000 | 28% | 430 |
| Source: USDA:National Agriculture Statistics Service | |||
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