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Welcome to the statistics area of the FIC Web site. Here you will find frequently requested data from the National Resources Inventory, the Census of Agriculture and Farmland Information Center fact sheets. You also can link to additional information and data sources. To access the information, select "national" or a state name from the drop down box.

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New York Statistics Sheet

National Resources Inventory
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FIC technical memo about the NRI
Summary of agricultural land developed
Summary of rural land developed
Glossary of NRI-related terms

1997-2002 2002-2007 1982-2007
Agricultural land converted to developed land (acres) 88,500 47,700 449,100
Agricultural land at the beginning of the reporting period (acres) 8,148,700 7,916,600 9,762,000
Prime agricultural land converted to developed land (acres) 30,800 15,100 160,300
Prime agricultural land at the beginning of the reporting period (acres) 3,042,900 2,993,700 3,400,600
Rural land converted to developed land (acres) 257,600 144,900 1,009,300
Rural land at the beginning of the reporting period (acres) 26,484,200 26,215,500 27,075,000
Prime rural land converted to developed land (acres) 72,400 36,500 279,800
Prime rural land available at the beginning of the reporting period (acres) 4,520,900 4,443,600 4,695,400
Total surface area (acres) 31,360,800 31,360,800 31,360,800

Census of Agriculture


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FIC technical memo about the Census of Agriculture
 
1997 2002 2007
Farms 38,264 37,255 36,352
Land in farms (acres) 7,788,241 7,660,969 7,174,743
Total land area (acres) - 30,216,824 30,162,489
Full-time operators 20,607 22,664 19,624
Part-time operators 17,657 14,591 16,728
Percentage of operators 55 and older - 46 54
Land managed by operators 55 and older (acres) - 3,638,942 4,087,374
Market value of agricultural products sold ($1,000) 2,930,569 3,117,834 4,418,634
   Percentage from crop production 36 36 35
   Percentage from livestock production 64 64 65

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