FARM RECEIPTS

Farm Production Expenses: Selected Years, 1970 - 1997 1/
Item 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990* 1994* 1995* 1996** 1997
-Million Dollars-
Current Farm Operating Expenses:
Feed Purchased 96.2 154.7 370.2 300.6 285.7 355.4 371.6 462.7 473.0
Livestock and Poultry Purchased 13.1 20.7 41.6 58.5 67.9 86.4 85.2 84.3 88.6
Seed Purchased 2/ 12.2 22.7 35.6 32.4 44.3 43.4 51.3 53 .4 56 .2
Fertilizer and Lime 45 .1 118 .4 134 .4 116 .4 100 .7 93 .9 108 .3 115 .1 108 .4
Pesticides 11 .6 22 .2 43 .1 49 .6 55 .2 63 .2 68 .6 76 .0 77 .7
Fuel and Oil 24 .3 42 .9 101 .1 79 .7 69 .7 69 .0 74 .6 74 .7 77 .5
Electricity 4 .6 9 .2 16 .6 19 .6 26 .2 23 .3 29 .2 31 .1 35 .8
Repairs and Maintenance 3/ 46 .9 69 .2 131 .0 100 .3 125 .5 123 .5 126 .7 124 .6 134 .4
Contract and Hired Labor 4/ 66 .3 85 .3 140 .6 135 .4 181 .9 190 .4 194 .0 205 .0 205 .2
Other Miscellaneous 5/ 42 .4 66 .5 122 .2 179 .7 240 .5 292 .4 324 .7 339 .6 343 .5
TOTAL CURRENT EXPENSES 362 .7 611 .8 1,136 .4 1,072 .2 1,197 .5 1,341 .0 1,434 .1 1,566 .5
1,600 .3
Depreciation and Other Capital
Consumption 6/

105 .0

183 .5

341 .6

366 .6

354 .3

345 .4

353 .5

357 .3

363 .6
Taxes on Farm Property 24 .2 34 .9 53 .7 52 .6 66 .4 67 .7 78 .4 79 .1 81 .5
Interest on Real Estate and Non-real Estate Debt
37 .1

75 .5

171 .4

206 .5

187 .4

161 .0

153 .2

152 .6
151 .2
Net Rent: Non-Operator Landlords 7/ 13 .7 19 .8 26 .4 36 .4 44 .0 43 .7 55 .4 57 .7 56 .3
TOTAL PRODUCTION EXPENSES 542 .6 925 .4 1,729 .6 1,734 .2 1,849 .7 1,958 .8 2,074 .7 2,213 .2 2,252 .9
1/ Details may not add to totals due to rounding. 2/ Includes bulbs, plants, and trees. 3/ Repairs and maintenance of buildings and repairs and operation of motor vehicles and other machinery used in the farm business. 4/ Includes cash wages, prerequisites, and (1951 to date) Social Security taxes paid by employers. 5/ Includes machine hire and custom work, ginning, telephone (business share), livestock marketing charges (excluding feed and transportation), containers, milk hauling, irrigation, grazing, binding materials, horses and mules, harness and saddlery, blacksmithing and hardware, veterinary services and medicines, net insurance premiums (crop, fire, wind, and hail), and miscellaneous supplies for dairy, nursery, greenhouse, apiary, and motor vehicle license and registration fees. 6/ Includes depreciation and accidental damage to farm buildings and depreciation of motor vehicles and other farm machinery and equipment. 7/ Uses different data sources for 1975 and earlier years. Use caution when comparing among these dates. * Revised. ** Preliminary. SOURCE: Farm Business Economic Report.

Income: Gross And Net Farm Income - Selected Years, 1965 - 1997 1/
Year Gross Farm Income (Excluding Inventory) Aver-
age
per
Farm
Farm
Produc-
tion
Expenses
Net
Farm
Income
4 /
Net
Average
per
Farm
Change in Farm
Inven-
tory
Adj.
Net
Farm
In-
come 4/
Adj.
Net
Aver-
age
per
Farm
Cash
Receipts
from Farm
Market-
ings
Gov't
Pay-
ments
2/
Non-Money Income
Other
Farm
Income
Total
Value
of Home
Con-
sumption
Rental
Value 3/
of Farm
Dwellings
Total
Non-
Money
Income
-Million Dollars-
1965 501.6 16.1 34.1 33.5 67.6 5 .7 591.0 6,953 450 .5 140 .5 1,653 11 .2 151 .7 1,785
1970 593.2 20.0 24.8 41.0 65.8 6 .9 685.9 9,025 542 .6 143 .3 1,886 0 .9 144 .2 1,897
1975 983.1 5.8 28.9 74.6 103.5 15 .9 1,108.3 17,876 925 .4 182 .9 2,950 1 .4 184 .3 2,973
1980 1,418.3 13.3 25.9 144.1 170.0 59 .9 1,661.5 28,647 1,729 .6 -68 .1 -1,174 -15 .0 -83 .1 -1,433
1985 1,659.9 23.9 17.4 111.7 129.1 62 .2 1,875.1 34,724 1,734 .2 140 .9 2,609 - 5 .7 135 .2 2,504
1990* 2,138.1 32.4 19.0 202.9 221.9 91 .7 2,484.1 54,002 1,849 .7 634 .4 13,791 - 5 .2 629 .2 13,678
1994* 2,194.2 34.2 11.7 198.7 210.4 101 .1 2,539.9 55,215 1,958 .8 581 .1 12,633 67 .1 648 .2 14,091
1995* 2,242.6 26.0 11.7 203.7 215.4 111 .4 2,595.4 55,221 2,074 .7 520 .7 11,079 12 .9 533 .6 11,353
1996* 2,378.9 30.5 10.1 217.4 227.5 130 .4 2,767.3 57,652 2,213 .2 554 .1 11,544 20 .7 574 .8 11,975
1997** 2,403.2 30.6 12.6 224.0 236.6 120.3 2,790.7 59,377 2,252.9 537.8 11,443 -98.5 439.3 9,347
1/ Details may not add to totals due to rounding. 2/ Includes value for payment-in-kind (PIK) crops transferred to program participants. 3/ New methodology and date sources are used to compute the gross rental value of farm dwellings for 1985 forward. Prior years (1960-80) were adjusted to be comparable with new methodology. 4/ Of farm operators. *Revised. **Preliminary. SOURCE: Farm Business Economic Report.

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