Virginia's wholesale value of all commercial floriculture sales totaled $70.8 million in 1997, up 16 percent from the previous year's total of $61.0 million. Approximately 91 percent of the state's sales came from producers with $100,000 or more in sales, this percentage remained unchanged from 1996.

    For the United States the total wholesale value of floriculture crops grown by operations exceeding the $100,000 sales level reached $3.56 billion in 1997, a 13 percent increase over the $3.15 billion from 1996.

    California had 22 percent of the total wholesale value for the 36 states surveyed. Florida was second with 19 percent. Michigan, Texas, and Ohio rounded out the top five states. California, Michigan, and Ohio posted increases over the previous year, but Florida and Texas fell below last year's totals.

Wholesale Value of Floriculture Sales
1996-1997*
	Virginia		United States /1
Types	1996	1997*	1996	1997*
		-Thousand Dollars-
Growers With $100,000+
Cut Flowers	2,496	1,948	412,700	471,569
Cultivated Greens	34	--	118,185	116,184
Potted Flowering Plants	22,501	21,318	684,340	722,869
Foliage Plants	1,756	3,576	508,947	499,964
Bedding/Garden Plant	29,922	37,633	1,428,133	1,346,959
TOTAL	56,709	64,475	3,152,305	3,557,545
TOTAL ALL GROWERS 2/	61,014	70,835	3,407,320	3,896,050
* Revised. 1/ Represents growers in 36 states. 2/ Wholesale value of sales as reported by growers with $100,000 or more in sales of floriculture crops plus a calculated wholesale value of sales for growers with sales below $100,000. The value of sales for growers below the $100,000 level were estimated by multiplying the number of growers in each size group by the midpoint of each dollar value range.

Virginia Agricultural Statistics Service . (800) 772-0670

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