Mississippi : 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 4,967,774 100.0 -- 1.5 324,186,533 Livestock and products 2,891,801 58.2 -- 2.0 141,090,378 Crops 2,075,973 41.8 -- 1.1 183,096,155 1 Broilers 2,194,245 44.2 44.2 9.5 23,112,184 2 Soybeans 633,094 12.7 56.9 2.2 29,058,111 3 Corn 460,291 9.3 66.2 0.9 51,550,748 4 Cotton 328,378 6.6 72.8 5.8 5,684,221 5 Aquaculture 247,666 5.0 77.8 19.5 1,267,783 6 Wheat 216,059 4.3 82.1 1.2 17,445,471 7 Rice 214,642 4.3 86.4 6.7 3,214,397 8 Chicken eggs 179,075 3.6 90.0 2.2 8,225,507 9 Cattle and calves 150,134 3.0 93.1 0.3 48,189,205 10 Hogs 73,904 1.5 94.6 0.5 16,077,382 11 Sweet potatoes 68,292 1.4 95.9 17.4 391,982 12 Dairy products 60,112 1.2 97.1 0.2 34,772,735 13 Greenhouse/nursery 42,475 0.9 98.0 0.3 16,096,699 14 Hay 37,838 0.8 98.8 0.5 7,402,735 15 Sorghum grain 25,742 0.5 99.3 1.4 1,833,814 16 Peanuts 13,514 0.3 99.6 1.3 1,051,658 17 Blueberries 7,920 0.2 99.7 1.3 592,402 18 Farm chickens 5,257 0.1 99.8 7.1 74,034 19 Watermelons 4,950 0.1 99.9 1.0 492,446 20 Honey 1,784 0.0 100.0 0.8 226,294 21 Pecans 1,770 0.0 100.0 0.7 260,198 Government payments 4/ 334,423 -- -- 2.7 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 1,297,999 -- -- 1.5 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.