Kentucky       : Leading commdities for cash receipts, 2008
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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
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                                       1,000 dollars   ----------      Percent          ----------       1,000 dollars

     All commodities                    4,837,756        100.0             --               1.5          324,186,533
     Livestock and products             2,907,594         60.1             --               2.1          141,090,378
     Crops                              1,930,162         39.9             --               1.1          183,096,155

 1   Horses/mules                       1,080,000         22.3           22.3              92.7            1,165,000
 2   Broilers                             743,805         15.4           37.7               3.2           23,112,184
 3   Corn                                 653,037         13.5           51.2               1.3           51,550,748
 4   Cattle and calves                    574,379         11.9           63.1               1.2           48,189,205
 5   Soybeans                             383,971          7.9           71.0               1.3           29,058,111
 6   Tobacco                              370,238          7.7           78.7              25.6            1,445,471
 7   Dairy products                       237,600          4.9           83.6               0.7           34,772,735
 8   Wheat                                210,817          4.4           87.9               1.2           17,445,471
 9   Hay                                  179,717          3.7           91.6               2.4            7,402,735
10   Chicken eggs                         130,387          2.7           94.3               1.6            8,225,507
11   Greenhouse/nursery                    85,865          1.8           96.1               0.5           16,096,699
12   Hogs                                  83,315          1.7           97.8               0.5           16,077,382
13   Sorghum grain                          4,056          0.1           97.9               0.2            1,833,814
14   Aquaculture                            2,857          0.1           98.0               0.2            1,267,783
15   Peaches                                2,608          0.1           98.0               0.5              543,746
16   Sheep and lambs                        2,206          0.0           98.1               0.5              442,684
17   Farm chickens                          2,049          0.0           98.1               2.8               74,034
18   Apples                                 1,741          0.0           98.2               0.1            2,667,803
19   Barley                                   772          0.0           98.2               0.1            1,016,539
20   Honey                                    368          0.0           98.2               0.2              226,294
21   Wool                                      38          0.0           98.2               0.1               32,381


     Government payments 4/               370,523           --             --               3.0           12,237,568
     Net farm income 5/                 1,548,690           --             --               1.8           87,073,789
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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.