Virginia : 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 2,999,439 100.0 -- 0.9 324,186,533 Livestock and products 1,956,367 65.2 -- 1.4 141,090,378 Crops 1,043,072 34.8 -- 0.6 183,096,155 1 Broilers 563,175 18.8 18.8 2.4 23,112,184 2 Cattle and calves 395,946 13.2 32.0 0.8 48,189,205 3 Dairy products 371,088 12.4 44.3 1.1 34,772,735 4 Turkeys 271,152 9.0 53.4 6.1 4,478,260 5 Greenhouse/nursery 256,494 8.6 61.9 1.6 16,096,699 6 Corn 152,617 5.1 67.0 0.3 51,550,748 7 Wheat 135,370 4.5 71.5 0.8 17,445,471 8 Soybeans 134,105 4.5 76.0 0.5 29,058,111 9 Tobacco 82,746 2.8 78.8 5.7 1,445,471 10 Chicken eggs 77,103 2.6 81.3 0.9 8,225,507 11 Hogs 61,841 2.1 83.4 0.4 16,077,382 12 Hay 55,844 1.9 85.3 0.8 7,402,735 13 Tomatoes 50,929 1.7 87.0 2.1 2,373,718 14 Aquaculture 42,605 1.4 88.4 3.4 1,267,783 15 Cotton 36,338 1.2 89.6 0.6 5,684,221 16 Apples 30,445 1.0 90.6 1.1 2,667,803 17 Potatoes 22,710 0.8 91.4 0.6 3,689,343 18 Peanuts 13,464 0.4 91.8 1.3 1,051,658 19 Grapes 10,404 0.3 92.2 0.3 3,345,958 20 Corn, sweet 5,083 0.2 92.3 0.5 1,093,127 21 Sheep and lambs 4,884 0.2 92.5 1.1 442,684 22 Barley 3,657 0.1 92.6 0.4 1,016,539 23 Peaches 3,349 0.1 92.7 0.6 543,746 24 Watermelons 2,904 0.1 92.8 0.6 492,446 25 Farm chickens 1,612 0.1 92.9 2.2 74,034 Government payments 4/ 132,774 -- -- 1.1 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 551,928 -- -- 0.6 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.