Census of Agriculture Summary Files

In addition, information is presented for livestock, poultry, livestock and poultry products, farm crops harvested, nursery and greenhouse products, and forest products. File B presents selected crops and livestock not available in File A (localized and/or miscellaneous agricultural products that could not economically be included in the File A standard report), and also shows race and ethnicity of farm operators. Comparable data from the 1969 Census of Agriculture are shown where applicable.

The 1987 files from the Census of Agriculture include Advance Report Data; County and State

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Data; Government Payments and Market Value of Products Sold; Detailed State Data; and ZIP-Code Tabulation Statistics. The Advance Report, County and State

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Data, and Detailed State Data files have data for all farms and for all farms with sales of $10,000 or more. The County and State

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Data files also contain comparative data from the 1978 and 1982 censuses. The Detailed State Data file contains some comparative data from the 1982 census. Data include number of farms; land in farms; size of farms; value of land, buildings, value of machinery and equipment; characteristics of operator; selected production expenses; total cropland; irrigation of farm land; value of agricultural products sold; inventory and sale of livestoc k and poultry; and major crops harvested.

The Government Payments and Market Value of Products Sold files have data that combine government payments value of agricultural products sold to provide a more accurate measure of the true economic size of farms. The files contain the same items reported in the Advance Report, County and State

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Data, and Detailed State Data files. The ZIP-Code Tabulation Statistics files have farm count information for all ZIP-Codes with five or more farms. Farm counts are available for farms, land in farms, market value of agricultural products sold, cattle and calves inventory, hogs and pigs inventory, cropland harvested and selected crops.

This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.