Alabama : 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 4,464,048 100.0 -- 1.4 324,186,533 Livestock and products 3,501,957 78.4 -- 2.5 141,090,378 Crops 962,091 21.6 -- 0.5 183,096,155 1 Broilers 2,630,700 58.9 58.9 11.4 23,112,184 2 Cattle and calves 331,749 7.4 66.4 0.7 48,189,205 3 Chicken eggs 298,550 6.7 73.1 3.6 8,225,507 4 Greenhouse/nursery 256,025 5.7 78.8 1.6 16,096,699 5 Cotton 154,507 3.5 82.2 2.7 5,684,221 6 Peanuts 128,017 2.9 85.1 12.2 1,051,658 7 Corn 102,390 2.3 87.4 0.2 51,550,748 8 Wheat 96,327 2.2 89.6 0.6 17,445,471 9 Aquaculture 93,254 2.1 91.7 7.4 1,267,783 10 Soybeans 90,829 2.0 93.7 0.3 29,058,111 11 Hay 54,801 1.2 94.9 0.7 7,402,735 12 Dairy products 39,711 0.9 95.8 0.1 34,772,735 13 Hogs 34,079 0.8 96.6 0.2 16,077,382 14 Tomatoes 12,296 0.3 96.8 0.5 2,373,718 15 Pecans 9,914 0.2 97.1 3.8 260,198 16 Farm chickens 8,607 0.2 97.3 11.6 74,034 17 Sweet potatoes 6,514 0.1 97.4 1.7 391,982 18 Peaches 6,184 0.1 97.5 1.1 543,746 19 Watermelons 3,780 0.1 97.6 0.8 492,446 20 Potatoes 3,080 0.1 97.7 0.1 3,689,343 21 Oats 2,197 0.0 97.7 1.4 159,156 22 Corn, sweet 1,141 0.0 97.8 0.1 1,093,127 23 Sorghum grain 1,131 0.0 97.8 0.1 1,833,814 24 Honey 1,105 0.0 97.8 0.5 226,294 25 Blueberries 479 0.0 97.8 0.1 592,402 Government payments 4/ 162,025 -- -- 1.3 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 1,391,221 -- -- 1.6 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.