Quickly accessible, concise information about each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia!
50 State Agricultural Rankings
South Dakota
Agriculture
The tables below offer information about South Dakota 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, South Dakota ranks 19th among the states for total agricultural production.
| Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Group | Value ($1,000) | % State total | State rank |
| All commodities | 4,877,484 | 100.0% | 19 |
| Livestock & livestock products | 2,422,184 | 49.7% | 19 |
| Crops | 2,455,300 | 50.3% | 17 |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
South Dakota's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004
This table lists South Dakota's top commodities in each of South Dakota's two agriculutural groups, livestock and crops.
| South Dakota's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock products | % State total | Crop products | % State total |
| Cattle and calves | 33.6% | Corn for grain | 19.5% |
| Hogs | 7.6% | Soybeans | 16.8% |
| Dairy products | 4.5% | Wheat | 8.8% |
| Turkeys | 1.2% | Hay | 2.4% |
| Chicken eggs | 0.8% | Sunflower | 1.3% |
| Source: USDA:Economic Research Service | |||
Cattle and calves are South Dakota's most importand agricultural product and account for a little over 1/3 of the total agricultural production of the state. Hogs and dairy products are also somewhat important as are, to a lesser degree, turkeys and chicken eggs.
Grain corn is South Dakota's number one crop with soybeans right behind. Wheat is important. Hay and sunflower products round out the state's top five "crop" commodities.
Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004
This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of South Dakota.
| Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product | Value ($1,000) | % State Value | |
| 1. Cattle and calves | 1,639,061 | 33.6% | |
| 2. Corn for grain | 949,749 | 19.5% | |
| 3. Soybeans | 820,587 | 16.8% | |
| 4. Wheat | 426,961 | 8.8% | |
| 5. Hogs | 371,000 | 7.6% | |
| 6. Dairy products | 220,440 | 4.5% | |
| 7. Hay | 117,311 | 2.4% | |
| 8. Sunflower | 65,494 | 1.3% | |
| 9. Turkeys | 57,285 | 1.2% | |
| 10. Chicken eggs | 40,197 | 0.8% | |
| 11. Sheep and lambs | 32,646 | 0.7% | |
| 12. Honey | 23,930 | 0.5% | |
| 13. Greenhouse/nursery | 22,609 | 0.5% | |
| 14. Sorghum grain | 12,996 | 0.3% | |
| 15. Oats | 8,703 | 0.2% | |
| 16. Millet,proso | 8,415 | 0.2% | |
| 17. Barley | 5,921 | 0.1% | |
| 18. Wool | 1,879 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 19. Dry beans | 1,580 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 20. Rye | 1,502 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 21. Potatoes | 1,012 | Less than 0.1% | |
| 22. Farm chickens | 2 | Less than 0.1% | |
| Flaxseed * | |||
| Safflower * | |||
| * 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 South Dakota 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 South Dakota cattle and calves is 1,639,061. This number represents a dollar value of $1,639,061,000 (1,639,061 x 1,000): one billion, six hundred and thirty-nine million, sixty-one thousand dollars.
The third column of the table lists the percent (part) of the total agricultural value produced in South Dakota. For example, cattle and calves account for 33.6% of South Dakota's total agricultural production value. The dollars generated by cattle and calves add up to a little over 1/3 of South Dakota's total agricultural production.
South Dakota 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.
| South Dakota farms and farmland - 2004 | Number of farms | Total farm acres | Percent of state | Average farm size (acres) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31,600 | 43,797,600 | 90% | 1,386 |
| Source: USDA:National Agriculture Statistics Service | |||
Home Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington, D.C. West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
