Cash receipts from Ohio livestock, livestock products, and crops totaled $5.12 billion in 1996, 9.4 percent above last year's record $4.68 billion. Cash receipts from livestock in 1996 were 22.4 percent above the 1995 cash receipts from livestock. Cash receipts from all crops in 1996 were up 2.7 percent from 1995.
The 1996 cash receipts from livestock and livestock products set a new record high at $1.94 billion, up 22.4 percent from last year and 7.7 percent above the previous record set in 1990. The percentage of total farm marketings earned by livestock and livestock products was 38.0 percent, 4.1 points above last year. The 1996 livestock portion of the total farm marketings increased for the first time since 1989.
The 1996 value of cash receipts for crops, at $3.18 billion, was the largest ever recorded in this category. This value was up 2.7 percent from 1995 and 10.6 percent above 1994. The percentage of total farm marketings attributable to crops in 1996 was 62.0 percent, 4.1 points below last year and the lowest percent of total since 1991.
Government payments totaled $163.1 million, 2.5 percent below last year but 62.2 percent less than the record high $431.9 million paid out in 1987. This represents 3.1 percent of all total cash receipts including government payments and 12.3 percent of net farm income after inventory adjustment. In 1987 the record high government payments accounted for 54 percent of net farm income.
Agriculture in Ohio made a net value added contribution of $2.31 billion to the National economy in 1996, up 10.5 percent from the previous year. This contribution amounts to 2.4 percent of the $94.9 billion U.S. agricultural sector. The final agricultural sector output, at $5.67 billion, was up 7.0 percent from 1995. Intermediate consumption outlays totaled $2.60 billion up 6.0 percent from last year. Capital consumption at $737.0 million was virtually unchanged from last year, while factor payments at $986.0 million were down 0.8 percent.
The top five commodity groups in 1996 in terms of cash receipts earned were; soybeans with $1.13 billion, 22.0 percent of total receipts; corn $947.0 million, 18.5 percent of total; milk $651.0 million, 12.7 percent; poultry and eggs, $545.4 million, 10.6 percent of total cash receipts; greenhouse and nursery products, $517.0 million, 10.1 percent. The shifting of poultry from fifth place to fourth place, replacing greenhouse and nursery in the rankings of these top five commodities in 1996 from 1995 were the only changes. The commodities that ranked from sixth to tenth places were hogs, cattle and calves, wheat, vegetables and other crops. Cattle and calves moved up to seventh place while hogs remained at sixth place and wheat dropped to eighth place, from a year earlier. These top ten commodities accounted for 95.7 percent of all cash receipts.
County rankings based on total cash receipts produced some changes comparing 1996 with 1995. Mercer, Darke, Wayne, Licking, Hardin, Holmes, Clark, Wood, Lake, and Putnam were ranked in the first through tenth places, respectively. Wayne county continued to be ranked number one in milk, cattle and calves, and oats and hay during 1996. Mercer moved to first place ranking in hogs, poultry and other livestock. Wood county retained the first place for wheat and moved to first place in soybeans. Fayette county moved to first place in corn, while Lake maintained first place for other crops.