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EQUINE

KANSAS AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Kansas Department of Agriculture
632 SW Van Buren, Rm. 200, P.O. Box 3534
Topeka, KS 66601-3534
Phone: 785-233-2230

Released: March 5, 1999

SPECIAL PRESS RELEASE


U.S. EQUINE INVENTORY UP 1.3 PERCENT

Inventory of equine in the United States as of January 1, 1999 totaled 5.32 million head, up 1.3 percent from the 5.25 million head on January 1, 1998. Equine includes horses, ponies, mules, burros, and donkeys. Texas ranked first in equine inventory with 600,000 head followed by California, and Tennessee with 240,000 and 190,000 head, respectively. Florida, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania tied for fourth with an inventory of 170,000 head. Ohio ranked seventh with 160,000 head, followed by Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, and Washington with 155,000 head. An additional fifteen States had equine inventories of 100,000 head or more.

The January 1, 1998 total equine inventory was 5.25 million head. Equine located on farms totaled 3.20 million head. Equine located on non-farm places were 2.05 million head or 39.1 percent of the total.

Equine sold totaled 558,000 head in 1998, an increase of 3.3 percent from the 540,000 head sold in 1997. Texas had the most equine sold in 1998 at 60,000 head followed by Kentucky with 28,000 head, Michigan with 21,000 head, and Florida, Oklahoma, and Tennessee each with 18,000 head.

Value of Sales from equine sold in 1998 was $1.75 billion, up 6.9 percent from $1.64 billion in 1997. The top ten States were Kentucky, Florida, Texas, California, Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

KANSAS EQUINE INCREASING

Inventory of Kansas equine as of January 1, 1999 totaled 105,000 head, up 1 percent from the 104,000 head on January 1, 1998. Equine sold totaled 11,000 head in 1998, compared to 10,000 head sold in 1997. Value of Sales from Kansas equine sold in 1998 was $21 million, up from $19 million in 1997. Value per head of equine sold was approximately $1,900 in both 1997 and 1998.
Equine: Inventory, 1998-99; Number Sold and Value of Sales, 1997-98
State Inventory Number Sold Value of Sales
Jan 1, 1998 Jan 1, 1999 1997 1998 1997 1998
1,000 Head 1,000 Head 1,000 Head 1,000 Head 1,000 Dollars 1,000 Dollars
AL 130 .0 130 .0 13 .0 14 .0 18,200 19,600
AK 1/ 2 .4 2 .4 0 .1 0 .1 176 176
AZ 135 .0 135 .0 7 .0 8 .0 14,000 15,000
AR 68 .0 70 .0 11 .0 12 .0 12,000 13,000
CA 235 .0 240 .0 15 .0 17 .0 55,000 60,000
CO 140 .0 145 .0 13 .0 13 .0 21,000 21,000
CT 25 .0 26 .0 2 .0 2 .0 10,400 10,400
DE 10 .0 10 .0 1 .0 1 .0 4,000 4,000
FL 170 .0 170 .0 18 .0 18 .0 108,000 111,600
GA 69 .0 70 .0 9 .0 9 .0 20,700 20,700
HI 7 .0 7 .0 0 .4 0 .4 800 900
ID 145 .0 145 .0 11 .0 12 .0 14,500 15,000
IL 99 .0 100 .0 12 .0 13 .0 18,000 19,000
IN 140 .0 140 .0 14 .0 15 .0 21,000 22,000
IA 99 .0 100 .0 11 .0 11 .0 16,000 16,000
KS 104 .0 105 .0 10 .0 11 .0 19,000 21,000
KY 150 .0 155 .0 27 .0 28 .0 570,000 650,000
LA 65 .0 65 .0 12 .0 12 .0 15,000 15,000
ME 16 .0 17 .0 1 .0 1 .0 1,600 1,600
MD 45 .0 45 .0 4 .0 4 .0 40,000 40,000
MA 35 .0 35 .0 2 .0 2 .0 4,000 4,000
MI 130 .0 130 .0 20 .0 21 .0 34,000 36,000
MN 155 .0 155 .0 14 .0 15 .0 17,000 18,000
MS 74 .0 75 .0 7 .0 7 .0 9,000 9,000
MO 140 .0 140 .0 16 .0 16 .0 24,000 24,000
MT 130 .0 130 .0 12 .0 12 .0 12,000 12,000
NE 74 .0 75 .0 8 .0 8 .0 9,600 9,800
NV 70 .0 70 .0 7 .0 7 .0 10,500 10,000
NH 7 .0 8 .0 0 .5 0 .5 1,200 1,200
NJ 45 .0 45 .0 12 .0 13 .0 55,000 58,500
NM 64 .0 65 .0 5 .0 5 .0 9,000 9,000
NY 157 .0 155 .0 15 .0 15 .0 45,000 45,000
NC 138 .0 140 .0 10 .0 10 .0 30,000 30,000
ND 40 .0 40 .0 6 .0 6 .0 5,400 5,400
OH 155 .0 160 .0 15 .0 15 .0 27,000 27,000
OK 165 .0 170 .0 18 .0 18 .0 30,000 30,000
OR 120 .0 120 .0 11 .0 10 .0 15,000 14,000
PA 165 .0 170 .0 15 .0 15 .0 44,000 44,000
RI 2 .0 2 .0 0 .1 0 .1 620 620
SC 64 .0 65 .0 4 .5 5 .5 9,000 9,400
SD 74 .0 75 .0 10 .0 11 .0 11,000 12,000
TN 185 .0 190 .0 19 .0 18 .0 49,400 48,600
TX 595 .0 600 .0 58 .0 60 .0 86,000 90,000
UT 74 .0 75 .0 9 .0 10 .0 10,800 12,000
VT 19 .0 20 .0 2 .0 2 .0 3,000 3,000
VA 145 .0 150 .0 12 .0 12 .0 58,000 60,000
WA 155 .0 155 .0 13 .0 14 .0 16,800 18,000
WV 43 .0 43 .0 8 .0 8 .0 11,000 11,000
WI 115 .0 120 .0 14 .0 15 .0 18,500 20,200
WY 61 .0 62 .0 5 .0 5 .0 6,000 6,300
US 5,250 .4 5,317 .4 539 .6 557 .6 1,641,196 1,753,996
1    On-farm data only from the 1997 Census of Agriculture.

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