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Agriculture Statistics - Arkansas
By U.S. Department of Agriculture
Mar 17, 2006, 13:19 PST

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TOP COMMODITIES, EXPORTS, AND COUNTIES
Commodity	Value of receipts thousand $	Percent of state total farm receipts	Percent of US value
Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2001
1. Broilers	2,237,586	43.6	13.4
2. Cotton	502,635	9.8	10.1
3. Cattle and calves	432,272	8.4	1.1
4. Soybeans	407,815	7.9	3.2
5. Rice	362,186	7.1	43.8

All commodities	5,131,964		2.5

For more details about Arkansas's top agriculture commodities, contact Roger Strickland, 202-694-5592.

Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2001

Commodity Rank among
states Value
million $

1.     Rice 1 350.7

2.     Poultry and products 2 307.0

3.     Other 9 225.7

4.     Soybeans and products 9 198.6

5.     Cotton and linters 6 163.1

Overall 11 1,385.2

For more information on exports see the Agricultural Trade Briefing Room or ERS's Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) or contact Carol Whitton, 202-694-5287.

Top 5 counties in agricultural sales 1997

Counties Percent of state's
total receipts Million $

1.     Washington 6.6 359.4

2.     Benton 6.2 337.5

3.     Mississippi 3.0 166.8

4.     Carroll 2.7 146.4

5.     Arkansas 2.6 142.4

State total 5,479.7

For more information about the Census of Agriculture see the National Agricultural
Statistics Service's web page, or call 1-800-727-9540.

*EXTRA* Need more? For a printable fact sheet about Arkansas Agriculture, click here.
Source: Agriculture Classroom.

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