Colorado : 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 6,509,478 100.0 -- 2.0 324,186,533 Livestock and products 4,130,514 63.5 -- 2.9 141,090,378 Crops 2,378,964 36.5 -- 1.3 183,096,155 1 Cattle and calves 3,058,056 47.0 47.0 6.3 48,189,205 2 Dairy products 533,968 8.2 55.2 1.5 34,772,735 3 Corn 518,205 8.0 63.1 1.0 51,550,748 4 Wheat 475,866 7.3 70.5 2.7 17,445,471 5 Hay 390,261 6.0 76.4 5.3 7,402,735 6 Greenhouse/nursery 276,850 4.3 80.7 1.7 16,096,699 7 Potatoes 276,794 4.3 85.0 7.5 3,689,343 8 Hogs 175,882 2.7 87.7 1.1 16,077,382 9 Sheep and lambs 113,923 1.8 89.4 25.7 442,684 10 Chicken eggs 96,842 1.5 90.9 1.2 8,225,507 11 Barley 39,469 0.6 91.5 3.9 1,016,539 12 Onions 32,646 0.5 92.0 4.2 775,653 13 Millet,proso 31,639 0.5 92.5 48.4 65,393 14 Sunflower 28,879 0.4 92.9 4.4 662,183 15 Sugar beets 27,288 0.4 93.3 2.4 1,128,001 16 Dry beans 25,121 0.4 93.7 2.8 905,013 17 Sorghum grain 19,662 0.3 94.0 1.1 1,833,814 18 Corn, sweet 19,360 0.3 94.3 1.8 1,093,127 19 Peaches 18,540 0.3 94.6 3.4 543,746 20 Cabbage 9,840 0.2 94.8 2.7 367,608 21 Cantaloups 8,996 0.1 94.9 2.4 371,451 22 Apples 3,624 0.1 95.0 0.1 2,667,803 23 Wool 2,912 0.0 95.0 9.0 32,381 24 Honey 1,823 0.0 95.0 0.8 226,294 25 Oats 1,492 0.0 95.1 0.9 159,156 Government payments 4/ 261,070 -- -- 2.1 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 1,388,609 -- -- 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.