E-mail: nass-ny@nass.usda.gov
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  William Blackson
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

www.nass.usda.gov/ny



                    SUFFOLK COUNTY LEADS NEW YORK STATE
                            AGRICULTURE RECEIPTS

Final results of the 2007 Census of Agriculture show Suffolk County sales
totaled $243 million, the top reported market value of agricultural
products sold by a single county in New York, according to Steve Ropel,
Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York
office.

In Suffolk County crop sales including nursery and greenhouse products, at
$225 million, increased by 26 percent since 2002 and comprised 93 percent
of that county’s cash receipts from agriculture products sold in 2007.

Wyoming County was the second leading county in 2007 with agriculture cash
receipts totaling $230 million. With $179 million in receipts from milk and
other dairy products from cows, dairy comprised 78 percent of the market
value of agricultural products sold in Wyoming County for 2007. Third in
line was Cayuga County with $214 million in agriculture products sold, $166
million of which came from total sales of livestock, poultry, and their
products, an increase of 76 percent in this commodity group since the 2002
census.

The 2007 Census of Agriculture is the most comprehensive source of
statistics portraying our Nation's agriculture. It is the only source of
uniform agricultural data for every county in the United States.

Details on this and other Census figures can be found on-line through the
New York NASS web site: www.nass.usda.gov/ny/. U.S., State and County
tables are available in PDF, Text, and CSV files. Printed copies will be
available along with the CD-ROMS and a searchable database. For further
information or assistance, please call the New York office at 800-821-1276
or send an e-mail to: nass-ny@nass.usda.gov.

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