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Farm Income and Costs: Farm Sector Income

Table-- Value added to the U.S. economy by the agricultural sector via the production of goods and services, 2008-2010
 
United States

Component accounts 1/
2008
2009
2010
2000-2009
(10-year)
average
Change
from
2009 to
2010
Deviation of
2010 from
10-year
average
   
$ billion
  Value of crop production 183.3 168.0 172.1 125.7 4.0 46.4
   Food grains 18.7 14.8 13.9 10.1 -0.9 3.8
   Feed crops 58.6 50.6 52.5 32.4 1.8 20.1
   Cotton 5.2 4.0 6.3 4.9 2.3 1.4
   Oil crops 28.6 35.5 35.1 20.3 -0.4 14.8
   Fruits and tree nuts 19.2 19.2 21.5 15.7 2.4 5.8
   Vegetables 19.9 20.3 19.9 15.7 -0.4 4.2
   All other crops 24.8 23.9 23.7 23.2 -0.2 0.5
   Home consumption 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0
   Value of inventory adjustment 2/ 8.2 -0.4 -0.9 1.3 -0.5 -2.2
  Value of livestock production 140.4 119.8 140.7 117.3 20.9 23.5
   Meat animals 65.0 59.0 69.9 59.1 11.0 10.9
   Dairy products 34.8 24.3 31.4 25.9 7.0 5.4
   Poultry and eggs 36.8 32.4 35.5 27.9 3.0 7.6
   Miscellaneous livestock 5.0 4.5 4.7 4.5 0.2 0.2
   Home consumption 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.1
   Value of inventory adjustment 2/ -1.6 -0.7 -1.0 -0.3 -0.3 -0.8
  Revenues from services and forestry 42.0 42.7 39.5 33.1 -3.2 6.4
   Machine hire and customwork 3.0 4.0 3.5 2.8 -0.5 0.7
   Forest products sold 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.0 -0.2
   Other farm income 17.7 17.3 14.1 12.4 -3.2 1.7
   Gross imputed rental value of farm dwellings 20.5 20.7 21.2 17.1 0.5 4.1
  Value of agricultural sector production 365.7 330.6 352.3 276.1 21.7 76.2
less: Purchased inputs 202.9 190.0 192.6 151.4 2.6 41.3
   Farm origin 79.8 77.3 81.3 60.4 4.1 20.9
    Feed purchased 46.9 45.0 45.4 32.5 0.4 12.9
    Livestock and poultry purchased 17.7 16.7 19.6 17.1 2.9 2.5
    Seed purchased 15.1 15.5 16.3 10.8 0.8 5.5
   Manufactured inputs 55.0 49.0 49.5 37.0 0.5 12.5
    Fertilizers and lime 22.5 20.1 21.0 13.8 0.9 7.2
    Pesticides 11.7 11.5 10.6 9.4 -0.9 1.2
    Petroleum fuel and oils 16.2 12.7 13.2 10.0 0.5 3.2
    Electricity 4.5 4.6 4.6 3.8 0.0 0.8
   Other purchased inputs 68.1 63.8 61.8 53.9 -2.0 7.9
    Repair and maintenance of capital items 14.8 14.7 14.8 12.4 0.1 2.4
    Machine hire and customwork 4.1 3.9 4.3 3.8 0.4 0.5
    Marketing, storage, and transportation expenses 10.1 10.3 10.3 8.6 0.0 1.7
    Contract labor 4.7 3.9 3.9 3.4 0.1 0.5
    Miscellaneous expenses 34.3 31.0 28.5 25.7 -2.5 2.8
plus: Net government transactions 0.9 1.1 0.9 7.6 -0.2 -6.6
+  Direct Government payments 12.2 12.2 12.4 16.4 0.2 -4.0
-  Motor vehicle registration and licensing fees 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 0.1
-  Property taxes 10.7 10.4 10.8 8.3 0.4 2.5
  Gross value added 163.7 141.7 160.6 132.3 18.9 28.3
less:  Capital consumption 28.7 30.1 30.7 24.3 0.6 6.4
  Net value added 135.0 111.6 129.9 107.9 18.3 21.9
less:  Payments to stakeholders 50.3 49.9 50.8 43.4 0.9 7.4
    Employee compensation (total hired labor) 25.3 25.0 23.7 21.1 -1.3 2.6
    Net rent received by nonoperator landlords 9.6 9.8 12.6 8.7 2.9 3.9
    Real estate and nonreal estate interest 15.4 15.2 14.5 13.5 -0.7 0.9
  Net farm income 84.7 61.6 79.1 64.6 17.4 14.5
1/ Value of agricultural sector production is the gross value of the commodities and services produced within a year.Net value-added is the sector's contribution to the National economy and is the sum of the of the income from production earned by all factors-of-production, regardless of ownership. Net farm income is the farm operators' share of income from the sector's production activities. The concept presented is consistent with that employed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
2/ A positive value of inventory change represents current-year production not sold by December 31. A negative value is an offset to production from prior years included in current-year sales.

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Updated date: August 30, 2011