Montana : 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 2,901,657 100.0 -- 0.9 324,186,533 Crops 1,722,068 59.3 -- 0.9 183,096,155 Livestock and products 1,179,589 40.7 -- 0.8 141,090,378 1 Wheat 1,191,321 41.1 41.1 6.8 17,445,471 2 Cattle and calves 1,003,050 34.6 75.6 2.1 48,189,205 3 Barley 175,016 6.0 81.7 17.2 1,016,539 4 Hay 114,569 3.9 85.6 1.5 7,402,735 5 Dairy products 57,950 2.0 87.6 0.2 34,772,735 6 Hogs 42,246 1.5 89.1 0.3 16,077,382 7 Dry peas 40,050 1.4 90.4 20.0 200,556 8 Potatoes 34,433 1.2 91.6 0.9 3,689,343 9 Sugar beets 32,179 1.1 92.7 2.9 1,128,001 10 Greenhouse/nursery 30,240 1.0 93.8 0.2 16,096,699 11 Lentils 21,645 0.7 94.5 24.8 87,214 12 Corn 18,947 0.7 95.2 0.0 51,550,748 13 Sheep and lambs 17,533 0.6 95.8 4.0 442,684 14 Honey 12,851 0.4 96.2 5.7 226,294 15 Chicken eggs 9,567 0.3 96.6 0.1 8,225,507 16 Dry beans 6,819 0.2 96.8 0.8 905,013 17 Safflower 5,238 0.2 97.0 9.2 56,917 18 Oats 4,692 0.2 97.1 2.9 159,156 19 Cherries 3,958 0.1 97.3 0.6 653,402 20 Wool 3,010 0.1 97.4 9.3 32,381 21 Flaxseed 1,653 0.1 97.4 1.8 93,257 22 Farm chickens 2 0.0 97.4 0.0 74,034 Government payments 4/ 294,459 -- -- 2.4 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 688,142 -- -- 0.8 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.