Vermont        : Leading commdities for cash receipts, 2008
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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
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                                       1,000 dollars   ----------      Percent          ----------       1,000 dollars

     All commodities                      687,801        100.0             --               0.2          324,186,533
     Livestock and products               571,864         83.1             --               0.4          141,090,378
     Crops                                115,937         16.9             --               0.1          183,096,155

 1   Dairy products                       499,200         72.6           72.6               1.4           34,772,735
 2   Cattle and calves                     51,667          7.5           80.1               0.1           48,189,205
 3   Greenhouse/nursery                    28,850          4.2           84.3               0.2           16,096,699
 4   Maple products                        27,832          4.0           88.3              36.0               77,332
 5   Hay                                   15,763          2.3           90.6               0.2            7,402,735
 6   Apples                                11,988          1.7           92.4               0.4            2,667,803
 7   Chicken eggs                           5,252          0.8           93.1               0.1            8,225,507
 8   Corn, sweet                            2,800          0.4           93.5               0.3            1,093,127
 9   Turkeys                                1,825          0.3           93.8               0.0            4,478,260
10   Honey                                    591          0.1           93.9               0.3              226,294
11   Hogs                                     383          0.1           93.9               0.0           16,077,382
12   Aquaculture                               80          0.0           94.0               0.0            1,267,783
13   Farm chickens                             21          0.0           94.0               0.0               74,034


     Government payments 4/                15,604           --             --               0.1           12,237,568
     Net farm income 5/                   164,743           --             --               0.2           87,073,789
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 -- = 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.