Cash receipts from Ohio's livestock, livestock products, and crops totaled $4.43 billion in 1999, 9.9 percent below last year's $4.92 billion. Cash receipts from all crops in 1999 were down 13.7 percent from 1998. Cash receipts from livestock in 1999 were 3.6 percent below the 1998 cash receipts from livestock.
The 1999 value of cash receipts for crops, at $2.64 billion, was the lowest since the 1992 value of $2.56 billion. This value was down 13.7 percent from 1998, and 21.7 percent below the record high $3.37 billion in 1997. The percentage of total farm marketings attributable to crops in 1999 was 59.7 percent, 2.6 points below 1998.
The 1999 cash receipts for livestock and livestock products totaled $1.79 billion, down 3.6 percent from last year and 8.9 percent below the record set in 1996. The percentage of total farm marketings earned by livestock and livestock products was 40.3 percent, 2.6 points above 1998.
Government payments totaled $627.7 million, slightly more than two times the 1998 government payments, and 45.3 percent above the record high $431.9 million paid out in 1987. This represents 12.4 percent of total cash receipts including government payments and 78.2 percent of net farm income after inventory adjustments.
Agriculture in Ohio made a net value added contribution of $1.99 billion to the National economy in 1999, down 18.5 percent from 1998. The final agricultural sector output, at $5.13 billion, was down 11.5 percent from 1998. Intermediate consumption outlays totaled $2.80 billion, up 3.5 percent from last year. Capital consumption at $774.4 million was up 1 percent from 1998, while factor payments at $1.19 billion were up 2 percent.
The top five commodities in terms of cash receipts earned were soybeans with $824.0 million and 18.6 percent of total receipts; corn with $767.5 million and 17.3 percent of total receipts; wholesale milk with $648.4 million and 14.6 percent of total receipts; greenhouse and nursery with $544.3 million and 12.3 percent of total receipts; and poultry and eggs with $511.0 million and 11.5 percent of total cash receipts. The commodities ranked sixth through tenth were hogs, cattle and calves, wheat, vegetables, and hay, respectively. The top ten commodities accounted for 94.8 percent of all Ohio cash receipts.
The following ten counties ranked first through tenth, respectively, based on total cash receipts: Mercer, Darke, Wayne, Licking, Lake, Holmes, Hardin, Putnam, Logan and Wood. Wayne county ranked first in milk, cattle and calves. Mercer county ranked first in cash receipts for hogs, poultry, and other livestock. Darke county was in first place for corn and soybeans. Wood county was first for wheat, Ashland ranked first for oats and hay, and Lake county ranked number one for other crops.
Changes to this year's report include publication of revised data by county for 1998 in addition to the 1999 preliminary data. For the first time in this series Tables VII and VIII are published for two years. The publication of the revised 1998 data by county permits a better comparison of the two years after the revisions have been made to reflect more complete data.
|
The publication is available online at http://www.nass.usda.gov/oh/. After you get our home page - click on Ohio Agricultural Statistics Publications Then click on Current Releases of the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service And finally click on Farm Income |