The state's farms produce a wide variety of conventional bulk commodity crops, with milk and apples being the most significant. New Hampshire farms produce many specialty and horticultural crops for markets both within and beyond the state. One of the fastest growing segments of New Hampshire agriculture includes greenhouse and nursery production, flowers, turf, landscape materials and services, etc. Includes ice cream, yogurt and other dairy products, jams, jellies, condiments, baked goods and other innovative and value-added food products. Purebred cattle are sold all over the world.
Pleasure horses are important to many aspects of New Hampshire recreation.
Standardbreds and thoroughbreds raised and trained in New Hampshire are vital to racing. Horse farms are major consumers of local hay crops. Hay, corn silage and other forage crops are produced annually on thousands of New Hampshire acres. These are grown for on-farm consumption by livestock and for cash crops as well. Beef, sheep, swine and poultry are among the types of livestock raised for home food supplies and commercial markets.