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Ask most people what Virginia’s tpp three agricultural products are, and they most often will guess peanuts, tobacco and pork. Right? Wrong! Way wrong! Virginia’s three leading agricultural commodities are ohicken, cattle and calves and milk.
The 1994 figures, calculated by the Virginia Agricultural Statistics Service, show that broilers, or chicken fjor meat, continues to be Virginia’s * Ifeading agricultural product with S397.9 million in cash receipts. When added to the cash receipts from turkeys and from the egg industry, Virginia’s poultry industry is a giant with more than $639.3 million in sales last year. This represents one third of Virginia’s total cash receipts ip agricultural sales.
Following broilers in the number two spot in terms of cash receipts is the Virginia cattle industry with sales of cattle and calves totaling more than $294.5 million in 1994. Cattle and Calves has been Virginia’s “bread and gutter” commodity since World War IJ. Many people don’t realize that the beef they buy in the store may have originated in Virginia since Virginia’s cattle industry revolves around “feeder cattle” (cattle that are raised to an $00 to 900 pound weight and then 3ent to Midwest feedlots where they peach their full weight before slaughter). Milk held its place as Virginia’s third leading commodity with cash Peceipts of almost $272.3 million.
What was somewhat of a surprise in the 1994 cash receipts figures was tobacco. Tobacco cash receipts in 1994 totaled $168.9 million, putting tobacco in fifth place. Tobacco lost its fourth place spot to turkeys. Turkey sales totaled $171.9 million, putting turkey industry sales above tobacco’s. However, turkey’s spot in fourth
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