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| Industries covered by emergent
adaptive farm businesses, 1997* |
| Sectors |
Farms |
Sales ($000) |
| Ten Largest Sectors |
|
|
| Grape vineyards |
67 |
36,320 |
| Nursery/Tree products |
92 |
30,260 |
| Vegetables
and melons (exc. potatoes) |
59 |
25,960 |
| Floriculture |
62 |
18,420 |
| Other noncitrus fruit |
62 |
18,030 |
| Tree nuts |
74 |
17,470 |
| Apple orchards |
38 |
15,070 |
| Horse and other equine |
40 |
11,370 |
| All other grain farming |
19 |
6,020 |
| All other misc. crop farming |
15 |
5,380 |
| Orange groves |
20 |
3,950 |
| All others |
96 |
36,750 |
| Total |
644 |
225,000 |
|
*Table traces farms that had less than $10,000 in sales in 1982
that were still in operation in 1997 with more than $100,000
in sales and sales per acre of $500 or more. *Note: Farm number
and sales information not included where farm count was below
six operations. Source: Census of Agriculture
Longitudinal File. |
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