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Kentucky: By The Numbers
~ Agriculture Update ~
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While average farm size in Kentucky is substantially smaller than the national average (154 vs 435 acres), Kentucky ranks in the top 20 for production of several crops and livestock inventory categories.
With nearly half of Kentucky’s population residing in rural areas, farming is an integral component of many local economies, including Kentucky’s metropolitan areas which also boast substantial income directly from farming and food-related enterprises such as food processing and wholesale/retail sales.
The web address for the data source in this update has changed from that on the hard copy.
See below for a more recent website address. Other "Kentucky: By the Numbers" webpages:
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To view these files, you will need Adobe Acrobat. |
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These publications are available online at the SNARL website at http://www.ca.uky.edu/snarl |
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County Data Sheets |
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PDF Files: ~ ~ Each Data Sheet is 2 Pages Long ~ ~ EACH OF THE FILES CONTAINS 15 COUNTIES.
To find your county, click on the file that contains your county name. All counties are listed alphabetically.
To print your county, scroll down to it and print the current page(s) only. To print the entire series, print all pages in each file.
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Data Sources Used (updated)
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These data are from the 1997 Agriculture Census.
Additional data are available from the National Agricultural Statistics Service website at http://www.nass.usda.gov/census
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Questions/Comments · Copyright © An Equal Opportunity University, University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture
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With approximately
90,000 farms in 1998, Kentucky ranks fifth in the nation for total number of
farms representing the diversity of agriculture in America. Here, farming
ranges from the large scale irrigated cash grains operations of the western
region to the horse farms and general farm enterprises of central Kentucky
to the small-scale farming of the eastern counties.
