North Dakota : 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 7,629,356 100.0 -- 2.4 324,186,533 Crops 6,717,004 88.0 -- 3.7 183,096,155 Livestock and products 912,352 12.0 -- 0.6 141,090,378 1 Wheat 2,514,691 33.0 33.0 14.4 17,445,471 2 Soybeans 1,095,688 14.4 47.4 3.8 29,058,111 3 Corn 1,089,492 14.3 61.7 2.1 51,550,748 4 Cattle and calves 705,903 9.3 71.0 1.5 48,189,205 5 Barley 383,031 5.0 76.0 37.7 1,016,539 6 Sunflower 320,032 4.2 80.2 48.3 662,183 7 Dry beans 313,603 4.1 84.3 34.7 905,013 8 Canola 253,680 3.3 87.6 90.8 279,500 9 Sugar beets 236,223 3.1 90.7 20.9 1,128,001 10 Potatoes 152,169 2.0 92.7 4.1 3,689,343 11 Dry peas 112,180 1.5 94.2 55.9 200,556 12 Flaxseed 89,122 1.2 95.4 95.6 93,257 13 Hay 85,218 1.1 96.5 1.2 7,402,735 14 Dairy products 75,295 1.0 97.5 0.2 34,772,735 15 Honey 47,385 0.6 98.1 20.9 226,294 16 Hogs 39,217 0.5 98.6 0.2 16,077,382 17 Lentils 28,764 0.4 99.0 33.0 87,214 18 Turkeys 22,488 0.3 99.3 0.5 4,478,260 19 Oats 9,753 0.1 99.4 6.1 159,156 20 Greenhouse/nursery 9,195 0.1 99.5 0.1 16,096,699 21 Sheep and lambs 6,289 0.1 99.6 1.4 442,684 22 Wool 464 0.0 99.6 1.4 32,381 Government payments 4/ 510,590 -- -- 4.2 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 2,348,962 -- -- 2.7 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.