Maine          : 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                      675,738        100.0             --               0.2          324,186,533
     Crops                                340,720         50.4             --               0.2          183,096,155
     Livestock and products               335,018         49.6             --               0.2          141,090,378

 1   Potatoes                             145,121         21.5           21.5               3.9            3,689,343
 2   Dairy products                       123,786         18.3           39.8               0.4           34,772,735
 3   Chicken eggs                         104,436         15.5           55.2               1.3            8,225,507
 4   Greenhouse/nursery                    55,578          8.2           63.5               0.3           16,096,699
 5   Blueberries                           54,850          8.1           71.6               9.3              592,402
 6   Aquaculture                           44,200          6.5           78.1               3.5            1,267,783
 7   Apples                                14,715          2.2           80.3               0.6            2,667,803
 8   Cattle and calves                     13,330          2.0           82.3               0.0           48,189,205
 9   Hay                                   11,001          1.6           83.9               0.1            7,402,735
10   Maple products                         8,832          1.3           85.2              11.4               77,332
11   Corn, sweet                            4,644          0.7           85.9               0.4            1,093,127
12   Barley                                 3,647          0.5           86.4               0.4            1,016,539
13   Oats                                   2,899          0.4           86.9               1.8              159,156
14   Hogs                                     782          0.1           87.0               0.0           16,077,382
15   Honey                                    441          0.1           87.1               0.2              226,294
16   Farm chickens                              8          0.0           87.1               0.0               74,034


     Government payments 4/                14,568           --             --               0.1           12,237,568
     Net farm income 5/                   167,233           --             --               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.