Monthly cash receipts data for 12 major commodity groups are summarized to reflect production and sales at the U.S. level during 1972-91. Cash receipts. data for three major commodity groupings (crops, livestock, and all commodities) by State. are included.

This report presents State-level soybean production cost and return estimates for the 1990 production year, along with coefficients of variation for each cost item. Per-acre costs are highly variable among States due to differences in production practices, inputs, and type and size of machines...

The U.S. green industry (floriculture and environmental horticulture) is the fastest growing agricultural sector in grower cash receipts, with an average annual growth rate of 9 percent since 1982. Green industry crops totaled $8.7 billion in grower cash receipts, earned 11 percent of the total...

Support for this bulletin was provided, in part, by the Feedgrain and Livestock Project funded by the U.S. -Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation under terms of the 1982 Agreement on Friendship, Defense, and Cooperation Between the United States of America and the...

U.S farms are becoming increasingly specialized, limiting the usefulness of traditional aggregate analysis. This report identifies data limitations, advantages in estimating farm income by type of farm, and the implications of SIC-based measures. The potential relationships between the SIC type...