New Jersey : 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 1,117,634 100.0 -- 0.3 324,186,533 Crops 940,462 84.1 -- 0.5 183,096,155 Livestock and products 177,172 15.9 -- 0.1 141,090,378 1 Greenhouse/nursery 460,265 41.2 41.2 2.9 16,096,699 2 Horses/mules 85,000 7.6 48.8 7.3 1,165,000 3 Blueberries 81,990 7.3 56.1 13.8 592,402 4 Chicken eggs 41,590 3.7 59.8 0.5 8,225,507 5 Corn 38,896 3.5 63.3 0.1 51,550,748 6 Dairy products 29,970 2.7 66.0 0.1 34,772,735 7 Tomatoes 26,645 2.4 68.4 1.1 2,373,718 8 Cranberries 26,522 2.4 70.8 5.8 453,664 9 Soybeans 26,453 2.4 73.1 0.1 29,058,111 10 Peaches 23,920 2.1 75.3 4.4 543,746 11 Wheat 13,867 1.2 76.5 0.1 17,445,471 12 Cucumbers 13,086 1.2 77.7 3.1 422,261 13 Squash 12,528 1.1 78.8 6.1 204,283 14 Apples 11,929 1.1 79.9 0.4 2,667,803 15 Hay 9,501 0.9 80.7 0.1 7,402,735 16 Cabbage 7,776 0.7 81.4 2.1 367,608 17 Lettuce 7,617 0.7 82.1 0.4 1,986,151 18 Eggplant 7,125 0.6 82.7 100.0 7,125 19 Potatoes 5,207 0.5 83.2 0.1 3,689,343 20 Cattle and calves 5,187 0.5 83.7 0.0 48,189,205 21 Asparagus 4,420 0.4 84.1 4.7 93,871 22 Sweet potatoes 4,348 0.4 84.5 1.1 391,982 23 Greens 4,160 0.4 84.8 100.0 4,160 24 Escarole 2,630 0.2 85.1 100.0 2,630 25 Turkeys 1,280 0.1 85.2 0.0 4,478,260 Government payments 4/ 17,220 -- -- 0.1 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 363,069 -- -- 0.4 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.