Illinois : 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 16,356,790 100.0 -- 5.0 324,186,533 Crops 14,232,028 87.0 -- 7.8 183,096,155 Livestock and products 2,124,762 13.0 -- 1.5 141,090,378 1 Corn 8,878,418 54.3 54.3 17.2 51,550,748 2 Soybeans 4,163,157 25.5 79.7 14.3 29,058,111 3 Hogs 971,218 5.9 85.7 6.0 16,077,382 4 Cattle and calves 581,032 3.6 89.2 1.2 48,189,205 5 Wheat 449,298 2.7 92.0 2.6 17,445,471 6 Dairy products 369,068 2.3 94.2 1.1 34,772,735 7 Greenhouse/nursery 338,823 2.1 96.3 2.1 16,096,699 8 Chicken eggs 120,770 0.7 97.0 1.5 8,225,507 9 Hay 72,809 0.4 97.5 1.0 7,402,735 10 Turkeys 38,192 0.2 97.7 0.9 4,478,260 11 Sorghum grain 32,509 0.2 97.9 1.8 1,833,814 12 Corn, sweet 24,209 0.1 98.1 2.2 1,093,127 13 Potatoes 15,914 0.1 98.2 0.4 3,689,343 14 Apples 10,511 0.1 98.2 0.4 2,667,803 15 Peaches 9,259 0.1 98.3 1.7 543,746 16 Beans, snap 8,054 0.0 98.3 1.6 509,144 17 Aquaculture 3,940 0.0 98.4 0.3 1,267,783 18 Oats 3,892 0.0 98.4 2.4 159,156 19 Sheep and lambs 2,634 0.0 98.4 0.6 442,684 20 Cabbage 1,105 0.0 98.4 0.3 367,608 21 Honey 1,102 0.0 98.4 0.5 226,294 22 Farm chickens 265 0.0 98.4 0.4 74,034 23 Wool 130 0.0 98.4 0.4 32,381 Government payments 4/ 635,881 -- -- 5.2 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 5,333,209 -- -- 6.1 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.