NY Saratoga Number One County for Equine press 3/9/07

SARATOGA NUMBER ONE COUNTY FOR EQUINE

Saratoga ranked number one in both number of equine and total value, according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA, NASS, New York Field Office. Saratoga had 11,000 equine with a total value of $250.5 million on December 31, 2005. Inventory was seven percent less than on September 1, 2000, and value decreased 21 percent.

The remaining top five counties for equine inventory were (2) Dutchess with 9,500 head, (3) Orange with 8,500 head, (4) Erie with 7,900 head, and (5) Nassau with 6,300 head. These four counties all showed increases in equine inventory.

The remaining top five counties for equine value were (2) Nassau with $221.0 million, (3) Dutchess with $132.4 million, (4) Suffolk with $126.7 million, and (5) Orange with $113.3 million. While Nassau’s equine value decreased, Dutchess, Suffolk, and Orange counties increased in value from September 1, 2000. The total value of the top five counties was $858.6 million, or 47 percent of the total value in the state.

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EQUINE INVENTORY AND VALUE, 2000 and 2005

County	Head			Total Value
County	Sept 1, 2000	Dec 31, 2005	Rank in 2005	Sept 1, 2000	Dec 31, 2005	Rank in 2005
	Head			Thousand Dollars

Jefferson	4,300	3,000	29	13,760	8,380	45
Lewis	1,200	1,000	56	3,300	2,670	56
St. Lawrence	2,900	3,400	25	8,990	9,240	40
*Northern, Total*	8,400	7,400		26,050	20,290
Clinton	1,500	2,200	39	6,150	8,540	42
Essex	1,000	1,700	49	3,100	7,190	50
Franklin	800	1,200	53	2,560	4,810	55
Hamilton	100	100	58	180	230	58
Warren	1,200	1,200	54	5,100	9,770	39
*Northeast, Total*	4,600	6,400		17,090	30,540
Erie	7,200	7,900	4	48,240	34,700	12
Genesee	2,100	1,800	44	10,080	8,110	47
Livingston	3,300	4,400	11	13,200	19,760	22
Monroe	5,700	5,100	10	27,930	23,080	18
Niagara	3,000	3,100	27	12,000	12,320	32
Ontario	3,700	4,100	15	22,570	18,510	24
Orleans	1,400	2,400	37	4,060	9,100	41
Seneca	900	1,300	52	1,800	4,870	54
Wayne	2,000	3,500	23	6,600	13,790	29
Wyoming	1,800	2,400	38	5,220	9,880	38
Yates	1,200	1,900	42	3,480	8,500	43
*Western,Total*	32,300	37,900		155,180	162,620
Cayuga	2,200	2,800	32	7,700	12,830	31
Chenango	2,900	3,100	28	10,440	15,880	26
Cortland	1,600	2,200	40	3,680	10,380	35
Herkimer	1,600	1,900	43	4,800	7,990	48
Madison	2,600	4,100	16	12,220	20,630	20
Oneida	5,500	5,900	7	31,350	36,140	11
Onondaga	3,700	5,400	9	17,760	27,490	15
Oswego	2,000	2,500	36	11,000	11,050	33
Otsego	3,500	4,400	12	11,200	21,300	19
*Central,Total*	25,600	32,300		110,150	163,690
Albany	2,900	3,000	30	15,080	29,320	14
Fulton	1,000	1,100	55	4,700	6,860	51
Montgomery	2,400	2,900	31	7,680	20,490	21
Rensselaer	2,500	3,600	21	12,750	34,140	13
Saratoga	11,800	11,000	1	317,420	250,520	1
Schenectady	1,500	1,800	45	7,200	19,420	23
Schoharie	2,000	1,800	46	10,600	15,140	27
Washington	2,700	3,900	18	13,230	40,450	10
*Eastern,Total*	26,800	29,100		388,660	416,340
Allegany	2,300	2,600	35	7,360	6,720	52
Cattaraugus	3,500	3,800	19	9,800	9,900	37
Chautauqua	3,800	4,300	13	10,640	10,920	34
Steuben	4,500	4,000	17	13,050	10,240	36
*Southwest,Total*	14,100	14,700		40,850	37,780
Broome	2,500	3,500	24	14,250	18,330	25
Chemung	1,700	1,700	50	7,310	7,220	49
Schuyler	1,100	1,400	51	2,200	5,500	53
Tioga	1,600	2,000	41	5,120	8,490	44
Tompkins	2,900	2,800	33	11,310	13,430	30
*Southern, Total*	9,800	11,400		40,190	52,970
Columbia	2,400	4,300	14	63,600	46,800	8
Delaware	2,200	3,600	22	7,260	14,100	28
Dutchess	7,000	9,500	2	126,000	132,400	3
Greene	2,000	1,800	47	11,400	8,250	46
Orange	6,800	8,500	3	59,840	113,250	5
Putnam	1,100	1,800	48	21,450	24,960	16
Rockland	600	400	57	5,400	2,200	57
Sullivan	2,300	3,200	26	20,470	24,610	17
Ulster	4,200	5,600	8	35,280	46,510	9
Westchester	3,500	3,800	20	121,100	87,040	7
*Southeast,Total*	32,100	42,500		471,800	500,120
Nassau	5,400	6,300	5	287,280	221,030	2
Suffolk	5,800	6,200	6	63,800	126,660	4
New York 1/	3,100	2,800	34	100,750	99,000	6
*Long Island/NYC,Total*	14,300	15,300		451,830	446,690

State	168,000	197,000		1,701,800	1,831,040

1/ Includes Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond