1997 Agricultural Census - Louisa County
From the AgCensus :
Table 1. County Summary Highlights
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385 384 397 Farms (number)
79019 81427 88594 Land in farms (acres)
205 212 223 Land in farms - average size of farm (acres)
112 (N) (N) Land in farms - median size of farm (acres)
370579 312279 179227 Estimated market value of land and buildings@1: average per farm (dollars)
2056 1424 988 Estimated market value of land and buildings@1: average per acre (dollars)
43987 37203 38231 Estimated market value of all machinery/equipment@1:aver per farm (dollars)
14 21 16 Farms by size: 1 to 9 acres
86 71 81 Farms by size: 10 to 49 acres
142 152 146 Farms by size: 50 to 179 acres
101 99 111 Farms by size: 180 to 499 acres
36 29 26 Farms by size: 500 to 999 acres
6 12 17 Farms by size: 1,000 acres or more
345 336 364 Total cropland (farms)
41351 39794 42835 Total cropland (acres)
308 294 332 Total cropland, harvested cropland (farms)
23122 21646 23441 Total cropland, harvested cropland (acres)
15 7 6 Irrigated land (farms)
124 13 36 Irrigated land (acres)
9542 9887 7635 Market value of agricultural products sold ($1,000)
24785 25748 19233 Market value of agricultural products sold, average per farm (dollars)
2460 1496 1142 Market value of ag prod sold-crops,incl nursery and greenhouse crops ($1,000)
7082 8391 6494 Market value of ag products sold - livestock, poultry, and their products ($1,000)
119 122 134 Farms by value of sales: Less than $2,500
65 71 75 Farms by value of sales: $2,500 to $4,999
60 65 73 Farms by value of sales: $5,000 to $9,999
69 72 62 Farms by value of sales: $10,000 to $24,999
28 25 23 Farms by value of sales: $25,000 to $49,999
21 13 11 Farms by value of sales: $50,000 to $99,999
23 16 19 Farms by value of sales: $100,000 or more
7268 8944 6052 Total farm production expenses@1 ($1,000)
18927 23292 15244 Total farm production expenses@1, average per farm (dollars)
384 384 397 Net cash return from agricultural sales for the farm unit (see text)@1 (farms)
1691 634 745 Net cash return from agricultural sales for the farm unit (see text)@1 ($1,000)
4404 1651 1876 Net cash return from ag sales for fm unit (see text)@1, average per farm (dollars)
167 177 165 Operators by principal occupation: Farming
218 207 232 Operators by principal occupation: Other
242 239 246 Operators by days worked off farm: Any
158 163 164 Operators by days worked off farm: 200 days or more
281 283 299 Livestock and poultry: Cattle and calves inventory (farms)
17563 18761 17394 Livestock and poultry: Cattle and calves inventory (number)
247 256 266 Beef cows (farms)
8247 8762 7916 Beef cows (number)
14 17 29 Milk cows (farms)
696 545 586 Milk cows (number)
274 268 286 Cattle and calves sold (farms)
9181 9049 10821 Cattle and calves sold (number)
14 28 42 Hogs and pigs inventory (farms)
371 1086 4782 Hogs and pigs inventory (number)
12 23 38 Hogs and pigs sold (farms)
1333 1773 8882 Hogs and pigs sold (number)
11 15 18 Sheep and lambs inventory (farms)
388 450 1070 Sheep and lambs inventory (number)
18 21 30 Layers and pullets 13 weeks old and older inventory (see text) (farms)
(D) (D) 913 Layers and pullets 13 weeks old and older inventory (see text) (number)
2 2 3 Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold (farms)
(D) (D) (D) Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold (number)
55 64 89 Corn for grain or seed (farms)
2652 2629 3686 Corn for grain or seed (acres)
270638 255812 173297 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)
30 54 62 Wheat for grain (farms)
1078 1495 1305 Wheat for grain (acres)
54432 62720 43261 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)
12 11 30 Tobacco (farms)
33 35 81 Tobacco (acres)
57401 51091 81654 Tobacco (pounds)
23 33 25 Soybeans for beans (farms)
1727 1504 1409 Soybeans for beans (acres)
61074 45103 25614 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)
276 252 293 Hay-alfalfa,other tame,small grain,wild,grass silage,green chop,etc(see txt)(farms)
16814 15291 15130 Hay-alfalfa,other tame,small grain,wild,grass silage,green chop,etc(see txt)(acres)
32672 34342 28258 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)
5 11 11 Land in orchards (farms)
8 24 26 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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