Tag Archive: "2012 ag census"
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2012 Cattle Inventory
Most everyone knows that the cattle inventory numbers have been trending down for a few years now. The 2012 Ag Census confirms this. In 1997, there were 34.2 million cattle on hand. Over the next 15 years, this steadily dropped to a final 28.95 million cattle in 2012. As we can probably guess, the top state […]
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The 2012 Billion Dollar Counties
I had previously posted on the 2007 Ag Census for those counties in the US that exceeded $1 billion in annual farm sales. In that census, there were 20 counties in the US with sales in excess of $1 billion and almost all of them were in California. Six other states had counties in excess […]
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2012 US Farm Census
The USDA performs a farm census every five years. They just released the final numbers for the 2012 census. Over the next few months, I will do various posts regarding this census on a more detailed basis, but I thought I would give some highlights now: Total US farm sales for 2012 were $395 billion […]