PRINCIPLE FIELD CROPS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Corn for grain | Winter wheat |
Corn for silage (preserved in a silo for feed) | Barley |
Dry alfalfa hay | Oats |
Dry other hay | Soybeans |
Forage (food for horses and cattle) | Sorghum (cereal grass) for grain |
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
These crops are shown by county for Southeastern Pennsylvania in the table below. The statistics are for the year 2000 for crops planted. For more information on future years refer go to http://www.nass.usda.gov/pa/
COUNTY | Corn for Grain | Corn for Silage | Dry Alfalfa Hay | Dry Other Hay | Forage | Winter Wheat | Barley | Oats | Soybeans | Sorghum (Not Available) |
Unit of Measure | Acres | Acres | Acres | Acres | Acres | Acres | Acres | Acres | Acres | Ac res |
BERKS | 72,000 | 26,000 | 24,200 | 25,500 | 62,800 | 10,200 | 4,500 | 4,500 | 24,000 | |
BUCKS | 24,700 | 3,100 | 2,600 | 13,500 | 18,700 | 3,600 | 800 | 14,200 | ||
CHESTER | 51,400 | 13,300 | 17,500 | 23,200 | 48,900 | 6,300 | 3,000 | 800 | 23,700 | |
DELAWARE | 600 | 300 | 400 | 800 | ||||||
LANCASTER | 178,800 | 94,900 | 49,100 | 19,800 | 90,200 | 11,000 | 10,100 | 2,400 | 33,900 | |
LEBANON | 46,800 | 17,000 | 8,000 | 11,400 | 28,600 | 3,900 | 3,300 | 1,200 | 18,000 | |
MONTGOMERY | 10,700 | 2,800 | 2,300 | 8,200 | 14,000 | 1,800 | 700 | 5,100 | ||
PHILADELPHIA | ||||||||||
Southeastern Total | 385,000 | 157,500 | 104,000 | 102,000 | 264,000 | 37,000 | 21,100 | 10,500 | 119,000 |
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