California : 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 36,186,735 100.0 -- 11.2 324,186,533 Crops 25,554,459 70.6 -- 14.0 183,096,155 Livestock and products 10,632,276 29.4 -- 7.5 141,090,378 1 Dairy products 6,924,121 19.1 19.1 19.9 34,772,735 2 Greenhouse/nursery 3,296,994 9.1 28.2 20.5 16,096,699 3 Grapes 2,925,895 8.1 36.3 87.4 3,345,958 4 Almonds 2,262,400 6.3 42.6 100.0 2,262,400 5 Cattle and calves 1,822,857 5.0 47.6 3.8 48,189,205 6 Lettuce 1,605,244 4.4 52.1 80.8 1,986,151 7 Strawberries 1,544,686 4.3 56.3 81.9 1,885,259 8 Tomatoes 1,284,236 3.5 59.9 54.1 2,373,718 9 Hay 1,026,214 2.8 62.7 13.9 7,402,735 10 Rice 826,214 2.3 65.0 25.7 3,214,397 11 Broccoli 650,042 1.8 66.8 91.8 708,030 12 Cotton 648,749 1.8 68.6 11.4 5,684,221 13 Oranges 626,719 1.7 70.3 31.8 1,969,204 14 Pistachios 550,440 1.5 71.8 100.0 550,440 15 Walnuts 527,560 1.5 73.3 100.0 527,560 16 Carrots 515,631 1.4 74.7 81.3 634,111 17 Chicken eggs 440,730 1.2 75.9 5.4 8,225,507 18 Lemons 427,817 1.2 77.1 96.8 441,994 19 Wheat 359,260 1.0 78.1 2.1 17,445,471 20 Celery 322,944 0.9 79.0 95.6 337,649 21 Avocados 321,468 0.9 79.9 95.9 335,079 22 Peaches 294,549 0.8 80.7 54.2 543,746 23 Turkeys 252,416 0.7 81.4 5.6 4,478,260 24 Cauliflower 233,508 0.6 82.0 86.4 270,250 25 Potatoes 197,217 0.5 82.6 5.3 3,689,343 Government payments 4/ 434,045 -- -- 3.5 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 7,876,806 -- -- 9.0 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.