Nebraska : 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 17,315,688 100.0 -- 5.3 324,186,533 Crops 8,995,559 52.0 -- 4.9 183,096,155 Livestock and products 8,320,129 48.0 -- 5.9 141,090,378 1 Cattle and calves 7,068,679 40.8 40.8 14.7 48,189,205 2 Corn 5,712,110 33.0 73.8 11.1 51,550,748 3 Soybeans 2,209,240 12.8 86.6 7.6 29,058,111 4 Hogs 728,702 4.2 90.8 4.5 16,077,382 5 Wheat 514,655 3.0 93.7 3.0 17,445,471 6 Chicken eggs 225,242 1.3 95.1 2.7 8,225,507 7 Dairy products 202,230 1.2 96.2 0.6 34,772,735 8 Hay 128,988 0.7 97.0 1.7 7,402,735 9 Dry beans 99,211 0.6 97.5 11.0 905,013 10 Sorghum grain 76,620 0.4 98.0 4.2 1,833,814 11 Potatoes 70,180 0.4 98.4 1.9 3,689,343 12 Greenhouse/nursery 42,237 0.2 98.6 0.3 16,096,699 13 Sugar beets 34,057 0.2 98.8 3.0 1,128,001 14 Broilers 18,894 0.1 98.9 0.1 23,112,184 15 Millet,proso 18,233 0.1 99.0 27.9 65,393 16 Sunflower 15,582 0.1 99.1 2.4 662,183 17 Sheep and lambs 10,144 0.1 99.2 2.3 442,684 18 Oats 6,436 0.0 99.2 4.0 159,156 19 Honey 3,425 0.0 99.2 1.5 226,294 20 Wool 162 0.0 99.2 0.5 32,381 21 Farm chickens 68 0.0 99.2 0.1 74,034 Government payments 4/ 518,502 -- -- 4.2 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 4,026,379 -- -- 4.6 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.