Florida's livestock industry had record gross receipts of $1,458 million during 2001. This was an increase of $83 million from receipts in 2000.

  Milk sales at $429 million remained the largest contributor to gross receipts. Receipts from milk sales were up from the 2000 receipts of $384 million. Cattle and calf sales brought in $361 million, down
from $368 million of the previous year. Chickens and egg receipts in 2001 were $376 million, of which broiler receipts accounted for $254 million. Chickens and egg receipts in 2000 were $336 million.

  Honey receipts were $14 million and aquaculture receipts were $35.8 of which catfish receipts were $1.3 million. Hog receipts in 2001 were $7.4 million, up from $7.2 million in 2000.

FLORIDA CASH RECEIPTS FROM LIVESTOCK MARKETINGS, 1992-2001 1/
Year	Milk	Cattle and calves	Chickens and eggs	Hogs	Honey	Total 2/ Livestock and products	Percent of total farm cash receipts
	1,000 dollars
1992	401,700	349,447	258,988	13,126	12,126	1,165,874	19
1993	385,503	362,495	298,121	15,106	11,300	1,210,232	20
1994	408,408	335,837	290,905	12,399	9,080	1,194,603	20
1995	363,528	287,352	314,577	12,098	12,659	1,134,378	19
1996	431,280	218,919	362,050	15,409	21,672	1,312,154	21
1997	407,715	320,424	353,128	12,335	11,738	1,385,551	21
1998	424,424	291,182	367,093	5,772	14,426	1,390,238	20
1999	412,112	309,852	354,160	5,743	12,326	1,360,547	20
2000	383,604	367,857	335,766	7,167	13,154	1,375,206	20
2001	428,802	360,515	376,166	7,365	13,640	1,457,986	22
1/ Does not include government payments. 2/ Calendar year basis for cattle, calves, milk, and total livestock and products. Total includes other items not shown separately and is not strictly comparable with components which have a marketing year of December previous year through November.