Texas : 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 19,172,500 100.0 -- 5.9 324,186,533 Livestock and products 11,030,554 57.5 -- 7.8 141,090,378 Crops 8,141,946 42.5 -- 4.4 183,096,155 1 Cattle and calves 6,895,625 36.0 36.0 14.3 48,189,205 2 Cotton 2,242,823 11.7 47.7 39.5 5,684,221 3 Dairy products 1,568,743 8.2 55.8 4.5 34,772,735 4 Broilers 1,557,135 8.1 64.0 6.7 23,112,184 5 Greenhouse/nursery 1,435,467 7.5 71.5 8.9 16,096,699 6 Corn 1,224,534 6.4 77.8 2.4 51,550,748 7 Wheat 705,494 3.7 81.5 4.0 17,445,471 8 Sorghum grain 665,885 3.5 85.0 36.3 1,833,814 9 Chicken eggs 460,305 2.4 87.4 5.6 8,225,507 10 Hay 397,392 2.1 89.5 5.4 7,402,735 11 Peanuts 185,803 1.0 90.4 17.7 1,051,658 12 Rice 175,738 0.9 91.4 5.5 3,214,397 13 Hogs 130,691 0.7 92.0 0.8 16,077,382 14 Onions 82,163 0.4 92.5 10.6 775,653 15 Potatoes 78,576 0.4 92.9 2.1 3,689,343 16 Watermelons 52,592 0.3 93.1 10.7 492,446 17 Cabbage 46,122 0.2 93.4 12.5 367,608 18 Pecans 32,650 0.2 93.6 12.5 260,198 19 Cane for sugar 32,573 0.2 93.7 3.8 850,118 20 Grapefruit 30,729 0.2 93.9 10.0 307,715 21 Soybeans 29,489 0.2 94.0 0.1 29,058,111 22 Aquaculture 28,744 0.1 94.2 2.3 1,267,783 23 Sheep and lambs 28,712 0.1 94.3 6.5 442,684 24 Cucumbers 21,484 0.1 94.5 5.1 422,261 25 Peppers, chile 13,883 0.1 94.5 15.2 91,479 Government payments 4/ 1,180,674 -- -- 9.6 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 3,218,210 -- -- 3.7 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.