FIELD CROPS GROWN IN SOUTHEASTERN PA

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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