West 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 525,042 100.0 -- 0.2 324,186,533 Livestock and products 428,771 81.7 -- 0.3 141,090,378 Crops 96,271 18.3 -- 0.1 183,096,155 1 Broilers 165,158 31.5 31.5 0.7 23,112,184 2 Cattle and calves 113,545 21.6 53.1 0.2 48,189,205 3 Turkeys 57,243 10.9 64.0 1.3 4,478,260 4 Dairy products 33,652 6.4 70.4 0.1 34,772,735 5 Hay 31,051 5.9 76.3 0.4 7,402,735 6 Chicken eggs 30,390 5.8 82.1 0.4 8,225,507 7 Greenhouse/nursery 23,060 4.4 86.5 0.1 16,096,699 8 Corn 12,952 2.5 89.0 0.0 51,550,748 9 Apples 8,455 1.6 90.6 0.3 2,667,803 10 Soybeans 6,162 1.2 91.7 0.0 29,058,111 11 Peaches 3,250 0.6 92.4 0.6 543,746 12 Wheat 2,621 0.5 92.9 0.0 17,445,471 13 Sheep and lambs 2,227 0.4 93.3 0.5 442,684 14 Aquaculture 1,872 0.4 93.6 0.1 1,267,783 15 Farm chickens 1,098 0.2 93.8 1.5 74,034 16 Hogs 970 0.2 94.0 0.0 16,077,382 17 Honey 511 0.1 94.1 0.2 226,294 18 Wool 54 0.0 94.1 0.2 32,381 Government payments 4/ 15,168 -- -- 0.1 12,237,568 Net farm income 5/ 12,722 -- -- 0.0 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.