South 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 2,359,507 100.0 -- 0.7 324,186,533 Livestock and products 1,384,588 58.7 -- 1.0 141,090,378 Crops 974,919 41.3 -- 0.5 183,096,155 1 Broilers 712,614 30.2 30.2 3.1 23,112,184 2 Greenhouse/nursery 270,511 11.5 41.7 1.7 16,096,699 3 Turkeys 267,400 11.3 53.0 6.0 4,478,260 4 Cattle and calves 126,405 5.4 58.4 0.3 48,189,205 5 Corn 120,395 5.1 63.5 0.2 51,550,748 6 Soybeans 110,543 4.7 68.1 0.4 29,058,111 7 Chicken eggs 104,183 4.4 72.6 1.3 8,225,507 8 Wheat 76,347 3.2 75.8 0.4 17,445,471 9 Tobacco 69,426 2.9 78.7 4.8 1,445,471 10 Dairy products 67,940 2.9 81.6 0.2 34,772,735 11 Cotton 67,555 2.9 84.5 1.2 5,684,221 12 Peanuts 60,200 2.6 87.0 5.7 1,051,658 13 Peaches 49,831 2.1 89.1 9.2 543,746 14 Hogs 48,789 2.1 91.2 0.3 16,077,382 15 Tomatoes 31,720 1.3 92.6 1.3 2,373,718 16 Hay 21,501 0.9 93.5 0.3 7,402,735 17 Watermelons 15,098 0.6 94.1 3.1 492,446 18 Cucumbers 9,188 0.4 94.5 2.2 422,261 19 Aquaculture 8,491 0.4 94.9 0.7 1,267,783 20 Squash 4,506 0.2 95.0 2.2 204,283 21 Pecans 3,890 0.2 95.2 1.5 260,198 22 Oats 3,328 0.1 95.4 2.1 159,156 23 Beans, snap 1,980 0.1 95.4 0.4 509,144 24 Farm chickens 1,608 0.1 95.5 2.2 74,034 25 Sorghum grain 1,433 0.1 95.6 0.1 1,833,814 Government payments 4/ 152,979 -- -- 1.3 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 619,740 -- -- 0.7 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.