All Fruit There were 127,920 acres of fruit on commercial operations at the end of 2000. That compares with 140,735 acres at the end of 1997. The 1997 figure does not include cranberries, which were added to the fruit rotational survey in 2000; the 2000 number excludes apricots. Most of the decline in acres from 1997 to 2000 was in apples. There was also less land in most of the other fruit species. The exceptions were blueberries and grapes, which had acreage increases of 500 and 1,000, respectively. There were 2,377 commercial fruit farms at the end of 2000. A commercial fruit farm was defined as having at least one acre of any tree fruit or one-third of an acre of any berry. The geographic concentration of fruit varied substantially. The top five apple counties accounted for 60 percent of the total acres. The comparable figures for tart cherries and blueberries were 78 percent and 95 percent, respectively. The counties with the most acres of fruit, in order, were: Van Buren, Berrien, Leelanau, Oceana, and Kent. They contained 60 percent of the acres of fruit in Michigan. All fruit: Number of farms and acres, by county and district ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ County and : Total : : Cherries, : Cherries, : : : : district : farms : Apples : tart : sweet :Blueberries : Grapes : Peaches : Plums ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antrim : 44 660 2,080 810 Benzie : 39 930 1,200 270 Grand Traverse : 124 900 4,100 1,800 255 60 Leelanau : 184 2,000 8,100 4,150 275 50 185 Manistee : 43 1,150 850 250 95 Charlevoix, Cheboygan, : Emmet : 17 60 170 Northwest 3/ : 451 5,700 16,500 7,300 25 550 210 280 : Ionia : 20 950 Kent : 115 10,300 280 85 Mason : 36 1,650 1,800 530 330 80 Montcalm, Mecosta : 22 950 Muskegon : 44 2,300 170 920 95 Newaygo : 20 1,700 210 85 Oceana : 111 3,550 7,750 480 1,800 155 Ottawa : 161 4,000 5,400 110 West Central 3/ : 529 25,400 10,300 1,100 6,620 37 2,540 300 : Allegan : 123 850 280 2,650 470 40 Berrien : 407 5,300 1,950 160 960 7,000 1,800 150 Cass : 25 1,100 120 Kalamazoo : 24 250 140 Van Buren : 362 5,200 1,450 45 7,250 4,850 420 185 Southwest 3/ : 941 12,700 3,940 230 10,900 12,800 2,730 390 : North : 96 220 16 8 26 15 Saginaw Bay : 59 150 7 125 16 Central : 64 620 5 48 8 West Thumb : 41 610 7 8 93 16 East Thumb : 67 900 13 33 115 95 South Central : 46 400 6 26 81 10 Southeast : 83 800 8 22 8 60 East 3/ : 456 3,700 60 70 455 113 220 30 : Michigan : 2,377 47,500 30,800 8,700 18,000 13,500 5,700 1,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --continued All fruit: Number of farms and acres, by county and district (continued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : : : : : : All fruit County and : Pears : Brambles :Cranberries : Nectarines :Strawberries: Other 1/ :------------------------- district : : : : : : : 2000 : 1997 2/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antrim : 40 60 3,650 3,860 Benzie : 16 54 2,470 2,920 Grand Traverse : 45 50 7,210 7,770 Leelanau : 26 35 9 14,830 14,800 Manistee : 65 30 2,440 3,520 Charlevoix, Cheboygan, : Emmet : 150 60 440 370 Northwest : 150 40 150 3 132 31,040 33,240 : Ionia : 55 1,005 1,675 Kent : 70 145 10,880 12,700 Mason : 95 80 4,565 4,560 Montcalm, Mecosta : 100 1,050 1,145 Muskegon : 20 3,505 3,995 Newaygo : 135 2,130 2,585 Oceana : 240 20 110 14,105 14,250 Ottawa : 25 165 9,700 9,760 West Central : 385 40 20 15 183 46,940 50,670 : Allegan : 62 138 4,490 5,290 Berrien : 85 140 80 70 17,695 20,175 Cass : 50 550 1,820 2,190 Kalamazoo : 430 820 1,075 Van Buren : 80 110 19,590 21,465 Southwest : 230 170 65 90 170 44,415 50,195 : North : 6 37 105 17 450 445 Saginaw Bay : 10 14 64 9 395 455 Central : 33 130 11 855 1,205 West Thumb : 25 36 10 805 910 East Thumb : 35 44 89 26 1,350 1,595 South Central : 7 9 64 7 610 770 Southeast : 19 48 77 18 1,060 1,250 East : 85 210 15 2 565 5,525 6,630 : Michigan : 850 460 250 110 1,050 127,920 140,735 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ Fruits combined to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. 2/ Includes apricots, excludes cranberries. 3/ Totals may not add due to combining fruits to avoid disclosing data for individual operations.