Massachusetts  : 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
k
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                                       1,000 dollars   ----------      Percent          ----------       1,000 dollars

     All commodities                      569,790        100.0             --               0.2          324,186,533
     Crops                                454,291         79.7             --               0.2          183,096,155
     Livestock and products               115,499         20.3             --               0.1          141,090,378

 1   Greenhouse/nursery                   176,784         31.0           31.0               1.1           16,096,699
 2   Cranberries                          136,820         24.0           55.0              30.2              453,664
 3   Dairy products                        50,904          8.9           64.0               0.1           34,772,735
 4   Corn, sweet                           17,888          3.1           67.1               1.6            1,093,127
 5   Apples                                17,860          3.1           70.2               0.7            2,667,803
 6   Aquaculture                           15,700          2.8           73.0               1.2            1,267,783
 7   Tobacco                               12,923          2.3           75.3               0.9            1,445,471
 8   Hay                                    8,855          1.6           76.8               0.1            7,402,735
 9   Potatoes                               8,235          1.4           78.3               0.2            3,689,343
10   Cattle and calves                      8,223          1.4           79.7               0.0           48,189,205
11   Peaches                                4,125          0.7           80.4               0.8              543,746
12   Chicken eggs                           3,718          0.7           81.1               0.0            8,225,507
13   Maple products                         2,977          0.5           81.6               3.8               77,332
14   Turkeys                                2,777          0.5           82.1               0.1            4,478,260
15   Hogs                                   1,250          0.2           82.3               0.0           16,077,382
16   Farm chickens                              1          0.0           82.3               0.0               74,034


     Government payments 4/                14,772           --             --               0.1           12,237,568
     Net farm income 5/                   178,587           --             --               0.2           87,073,789
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 -- = 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.