North Carolina : 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 9,752,796 100.0 -- 3.0 324,186,533 Livestock and products 6,461,372 66.3 -- 4.6 141,090,378 Crops 3,291,424 33.7 -- 1.8 183,096,155 1 Broilers 2,691,619 27.6 27.6 11.6 23,112,184 2 Hogs 2,170,806 22.3 49.9 13.5 16,077,382 3 Greenhouse/nursery 777,183 8.0 57.8 4.8 16,096,699 4 Tobacco 686,833 7.0 64.9 47.5 1,445,471 5 Turkeys 652,320 6.7 71.6 14.6 4,478,260 6 Soybeans 439,893 4.5 76.1 1.5 29,058,111 7 Chicken eggs 373,942 3.8 79.9 4.5 8,225,507 8 Corn 333,028 3.4 83.3 0.6 51,550,748 9 Wheat 291,465 3.0 86.3 1.7 17,445,471 10 Cattle and calves 197,650 2.0 88.3 0.4 48,189,205 11 Cotton 192,894 2.0 90.3 3.4 5,684,221 12 Dairy products 189,630 1.9 92.3 0.5 34,772,735 13 Sweet potatoes 141,820 1.5 93.7 36.2 391,982 14 Peanuts 67,832 0.7 94.4 6.5 1,051,658 15 Blueberries 47,950 0.5 94.9 8.1 592,402 16 Tomatoes 33,728 0.3 95.2 1.4 2,373,718 17 Aquaculture 30,186 0.3 95.5 2.4 1,267,783 18 Potatoes 25,565 0.3 95.8 0.7 3,689,343 19 Cucumbers 25,286 0.3 96.1 6.0 422,261 20 Apples 21,569 0.2 96.3 0.8 2,667,803 21 Strawberries 20,800 0.2 96.5 1.1 1,885,259 22 Cabbage 16,250 0.2 96.7 4.4 367,608 23 Hay 13,450 0.1 96.8 0.2 7,402,735 24 Corn, sweet 12,350 0.1 96.9 1.1 1,093,127 25 Watermelons 12,060 0.1 97.1 2.4 492,446 Government payments 4/ 518,648 -- -- 4.2 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 2,833,983 -- -- 3.3 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.