Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Quick Facts:
Total land area: 25,388,000 acres.
Farms: 84,000. (Tied for 4th in Nation with Tennessee, behind Texas, Missouri and Iowa.)
Land in farms: 13,800,000 acres. Farmland accounts for 54 per cent of the total acreage in Kentucky.
Average Farm Size: 164 acres.
Average value of land and buildings on farms: $2,200 per acre.
Total cash receipts from farm commodities in 2004 totalled over 4.1 billion dollars.
Please visit the Kentucky Department of Agriculture for more information.
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Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2006
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Value of receipts
thousand $
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Percent of state total
farm receipts
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Percent of US value
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1. Horses/mules
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1,110,000
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27.7
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84.5
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2. Cattle and calves
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607,796
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15.2
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1.2
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3. Broilers
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604,010
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15.1
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3.2
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4. Corn
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339,260
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8.5
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1.6
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5. Soybeans
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325,729
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8.1
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1.9
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All commodities
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4,007,202
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1.7
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Farm income and value added data
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2005
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2006
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Number of farms
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84,000
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84,000
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Thousands $
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Final crop output
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1,147,015
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1,354,131
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+ Final animal output
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2,829,773
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2,784,524
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+ Services and forestry
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1,147,598
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1,075,791
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= Final agricultural sector output
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5,124,386
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5,214,446
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- Intermediate consumption outlays
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2,226,093
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2,305,125
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+ Net government transactions
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701,935
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358,242
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= Gross value added
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3,600,228
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3,267,563
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- Capital consumption
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745,934
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779,664
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= Net value added
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2,854,294
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2,487,899
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- Factor payments
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737,280
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746,383
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Employee compensation (total hired labor)
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279,202
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287,112
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Net rent received by nonoperator landlords
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200,810
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167,069
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Real estate and nonreal estate interest
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257,268
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292,202
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= Net farm income
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2,117,014
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1,741,516
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