Louisiana : Leading commdities for cash receipts, 2008 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1,000 dollars ---------- Percent ---------- 1,000 dollars All commodities 3,034,676 100.0 -- 0.9 324,186,533 Crops 1,984,860 65.4 -- 1.1 183,096,155 Livestock and products 1,049,816 34.6 -- 0.7 141,090,378 1 Rice 399,650 13.2 13.2 12.4 3,214,397 2 Corn 389,162 12.8 26.0 0.8 51,550,748 3 Cane for sugar 327,720 10.8 36.8 38.5 850,118 4 Soybeans 272,424 9.0 45.8 0.9 29,058,111 5 Cattle and calves 191,012 6.3 52.1 0.4 48,189,205 6 Wheat 159,916 5.3 57.3 0.9 17,445,471 7 Aquaculture 133,427 4.4 61.7 10.5 1,267,783 8 Cotton 127,058 4.2 65.9 2.2 5,684,221 9 Greenhouse/nursery 111,635 3.7 69.6 0.7 16,096,699 10 Dairy products 64,377 2.1 71.7 0.2 34,772,735 11 Sorghum grain 56,677 1.9 73.6 3.1 1,833,814 12 Chicken eggs 47,694 1.6 75.2 0.6 8,225,507 13 Sweet potatoes 33,125 1.1 76.2 8.5 391,982 14 Hay 27,809 0.9 77.2 0.4 7,402,735 15 Pecans 4,750 0.2 77.3 1.8 260,198 16 Honey 2,970 0.1 77.4 1.3 226,294 17 Hogs 1,709 0.1 77.5 0.0 16,077,382 18 Peaches 1,040 0.0 77.5 0.2 543,746 19 Farm chickens 966 0.0 77.5 1.3 74,034 Government payments 4/ 219,945 -- -- 1.8 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 789,846 -- -- 0.9 87,073,789 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ -- = 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.