Maryland : 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 1,965,060 100.0 -- 0.6 324,186,533 Livestock and products 1,155,521 58.8 -- 0.8 141,090,378 Crops 809,539 41.2 -- 0.4 183,096,155 1 Broilers 790,076 40.2 40.2 3.4 23,112,184 2 Greenhouse/nursery 218,543 11.1 51.3 1.4 16,096,699 3 Corn 200,221 10.2 61.5 0.4 51,550,748 4 Dairy products 194,180 9.9 71.4 0.6 34,772,735 5 Soybeans 135,821 6.9 78.3 0.5 29,058,111 6 Wheat 94,102 4.8 83.1 0.5 17,445,471 7 Cattle and calves 70,118 3.6 86.7 0.1 48,189,205 8 Chicken eggs 62,682 3.2 89.9 0.8 8,225,507 9 Hay 30,543 1.6 91.4 0.4 7,402,735 10 Corn, sweet 13,617 0.7 92.1 1.2 1,093,127 11 Turkeys 11,465 0.6 92.7 0.3 4,478,260 12 Watermelons 11,310 0.6 93.3 2.3 492,446 13 Barley 9,172 0.5 93.7 0.9 1,016,539 14 Tomatoes 8,400 0.4 94.2 0.4 2,373,718 15 Hogs 7,400 0.4 94.5 0.0 16,077,382 16 Potatoes 6,975 0.4 94.9 0.2 3,689,343 17 Apples 6,090 0.3 95.2 0.2 2,667,803 18 Peaches 3,977 0.2 95.4 0.7 543,746 19 Cantaloups 1,425 0.1 95.5 0.4 371,451 20 Sheep and lambs 1,121 0.1 95.5 0.3 442,684 21 Farm chickens 137 0.0 95.5 0.2 74,034 22 Wool 45 0.0 95.5 0.1 32,381 Government payments 4/ 57,431 -- -- 0.5 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 490,751 -- -- 0.6 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.