1997 Agricultural Census - Fauquier County
From the AgCensus :
Table 1. County Summary Highlights
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957 925 978 Farms (number)
239034 235533 240638 Land in farms (acres)
250 255 246 Land in farms - average size of farm (acres)
85 (N) (N) Land in farms - median size of farm (acres)
968756 825429 600016 Estimated market value of land and buildings@1: average per farm (dollars)
3787 3406 2390 Estimated market value of land and buildings@1: average per acre (dollars)
53108 37440 38474 Estimated market value of all machinery/equipment@1:aver per farm (dollars)
51 54 31 Farms by size: 1 to 9 acres
286 270 289 Farms by size: 10 to 49 acres
328 333 355 Farms by size: 50 to 179 acres
193 163 188 Farms by size: 180 to 499 acres
57 59 70 Farms by size: 500 to 999 acres
42 46 45 Farms by size: 1,000 acres or more
797 808 873 Total cropland (farms)
121563 119595 123054 Total cropland (acres)
608 620 690 Total cropland, harvested cropland (farms)
70688 69265 67196 Total cropland, harvested cropland (acres)
25 27 23 Irrigated land (farms)
2865 598 500 Irrigated land (acres)
47474 37776 31494 Market value of agricultural products sold ($1,000)
49607 40838 32202 Market value of agricultural products sold, average per farm (dollars)
13479 7429 4310 Market value of ag prod sold-crops,incl nursery and greenhouse crops ($1,000)
33995 30346 27184 Market value of ag products sold - livestock, poultry, and their products ($1,000)
325 299 310 Farms by value of sales: Less than $2,500
131 144 158 Farms by value of sales: $2,500 to $4,999
154 136 175 Farms by value of sales: $5,000 to $9,999
152 151 153 Farms by value of sales: $10,000 to $24,999
78 72 66 Farms by value of sales: $25,000 to $49,999
44 50 43 Farms by value of sales: $50,000 to $99,999
73 73 73 Farms by value of sales: $100,000 or more
38831 40249 30054 Total farm production expenses@1 ($1,000)
40618 43560 30699 Total farm production expenses@1, average per farm (dollars)
956 924 979 Net cash return from agricultural sales for the farm unit (see text)@1 (farms)
8739 -3808 225 Net cash return from agricultural sales for the farm unit (see text)@1 ($1,000)
9142 -4121 230 Net cash return from ag sales for fm unit (see text)@1, average per farm (dollars)
456 450 433 Operators by principal occupation: Farming
501 475 545 Operators by principal occupation: Other
521 529 596 Operators by days worked off farm: Any
335 347 396 Operators by days worked off farm: 200 days or more
577 575 590 Livestock and poultry: Cattle and calves inventory (farms)
58969 61860 49840 Livestock and poultry: Cattle and calves inventory (number)
451 448 468 Beef cows (farms)
23703 24532 18889 Beef cows (number)
60 68 90 Milk cows (farms)
5801 6380 6211 Milk cows (number)
579 570 620 Cattle and calves sold (farms)
32782 32557 26622 Cattle and calves sold (number)
30 47 53 Hogs and pigs inventory (farms)
461 849 1521 Hogs and pigs inventory (number)
23 34 47 Hogs and pigs sold (farms)
538 878 2776 Hogs and pigs sold (number)
28 34 44 Sheep and lambs inventory (farms)
1650 2503 2739 Sheep and lambs inventory (number)
59 70 87 Layers and pullets 13 weeks old and older inventory (see text) (farms)
1588 2368 2217 Layers and pullets 13 weeks old and older inventory (see text) (number)
0 1 0 Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold (farms)
0 (D) 0 Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold (number)
95 121 132 Corn for grain or seed (farms)
9123 11404 9621 Corn for grain or seed (acres)
803327 1368516 656094 Corn for grain or seed (bushels)
(N) (N) (N) Corn for silage or green chop (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Corn for silage or green chop (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Corn for silage or green chop (tons, green)
(N) (N) (N) Sorghum for grain or seed (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Sorghum for grain or seed (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Sorghum for grain or seed (bushels)
27 54 54 Wheat for grain (farms)
1524 3669 3336 Wheat for grain (acres)
66888 191753 152181 Wheat for grain (bushels)
(N) (N) (N) Barley for grain (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Barley for grain (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Barley for grain (bushels)
(N) (N) (N) Oats for grain (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Oats for grain (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Oats for grain (bushels)
(N) (N) (N) Rice (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Rice (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Rice (hundredweight)
(N) (N) (N) Sunflower seed (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Sunflower seed (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Sunflower seed (pounds)
(N) (N) (N) Cotton (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Cotton (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Cotton (bales)
0 0 0 Tobacco (farms)
0 0 0 Tobacco (acres)
0 0 0 Tobacco (pounds)
49 46 43 Soybeans for beans (farms)
7722 4629 2232 Soybeans for beans (acres)
283024 154168 44307 Soybeans for beans (bushels)
(N) (N) (N) Dry edible beans, excluding dry limas (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Dry edible beans, excluding dry limas (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Dry edible beans, excluding dry limas (hundredweight)
(N) (N) (N) Potatoes, excluding sweetpotatoes (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Potatoes, excluding sweetpotatoes (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Potatoes, excluding sweetpotatoes (hundredweight)
(N) (N) (N) Sugar beets for sugar (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Sugar beets for sugar (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Sugar beets for sugar (tons)
(N) (N) (N) Sugarcane for sugar (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Sugarcane for sugar (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Sugarcane for sugar (tons)
(N) (N) (N) Pineapples harvested (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Pineapples harvested (acres)
(N) (N) (N) Pineapples harvested (tons)
0 0 0 Peanuts for nuts (farms)
0 0 0 Peanuts for nuts (acres)
0 0 0 Peanuts for nuts (pounds)
536 533 602 Hay-alfalfa,other tame,small grain,wild,grass silage,green chop,etc(see txt)(farms)
42264 43462 41876 Hay-alfalfa,other tame,small grain,wild,grass silage,green chop,etc(see txt)(acres)
80962 85769 75493 Hay-alfal,oth tame,small grain,wild,grass silage,green chop,etc(see txt)(tons,dry)
(N) (N) (N) Vegetables harvested for sale (see text) (farms)
(N) (N) (N) Vegetables harvested for sale (see text) (acres)
44 59 55 Land in orchards (farms)
415 697 537 Land in orchards (acres)
(D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual farms.
(B) Data not available due to brackets.
(X) Not applicable.
(Z) Less than half of the unit shown.
(N) Not available.
(H) Standard error or relative standard error of estimate
is greater than or equal to 99.95 percent.
(L) Standard error or relative standard error of estimate
is less than 0.05 percent.
(S) Withheld because estimate did not meet publication standards
on the basis of either the response rate or a consistency review.
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