Connecticut    : Leading commdities for cash receipts, 2008
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R                                                       Percent                          Percent          Value
a             Item                        Value of      of total       Cumulative        of U.S.          of U.S.
n                                         receipts      receipts       percent 1/        value 2/        receipts
k
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                                       1,000 dollars   ----------      Percent          ----------       1,000 dollars

     All commodities                      600,589        100.0             --               0.2          324,186,533
     Crops                                412,739         68.7             --               0.2          183,096,155
     Livestock and products               187,850         31.3             --               0.1          141,090,378

 1   Greenhouse/nursery                   273,840         45.6           45.6               1.7           16,096,699
 2   Dairy products                        72,720         12.1           57.7               0.2           34,772,735
 3   Chicken eggs                          60,113         10.0           67.7               0.7            8,225,507
 4   Aquaculture                           27,600          4.6           72.3               2.2            1,267,783
 5   Tobacco                               22,495          3.7           76.1               1.6            1,445,471
 6   Corn, sweet                           11,620          1.9           78.0               1.1            1,093,127
 7   Apples                                10,456          1.7           79.7               0.4            2,667,803
 8   Cattle and calves                      8,168          1.4           81.1               0.0           48,189,205
 9   Hay                                    7,108          1.2           82.3               0.1            7,402,735
10   Peaches                                2,400          0.4           82.7               0.4              543,746
11   Maple products                         1,170          0.2           82.9               1.5               77,332
12   Pears                                  1,073          0.2           83.0               0.3              388,386
13   Hogs                                     305          0.1           83.1               0.0           16,077,382
14   Farm chickens                             19          0.0           83.1               0.0               74,034


     Government payments 4/                13,289           --             --               0.1           12,237,568
     Net farm income 5/                   176,975           --             --               0.2           87,073,789
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 -- = Not applicable

1/ The cumulative percentage is the sum of the percent of total receipts for each               commodity and all preceding commodities.
2/ Percent State receipts are of U.S. receipts for same line item.
3/ 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.
4/ Government payments made directly to farmers in cash or Payment-in-Kind.
5/ Net farm income, a value of production measure, is the farm operator's share of the sector's net value added
to the National economy from production activities within a calendar year.