what percentage of agriculture in us is livestock production
In 2012, U.S. farms sold nearly $395 billion in agricultural products. This was $97 billion, or 33 percent, more than in 2007, at the time of the last agriculture census. Crops accounted for $69 billion of the increase, and livestock accounted for $29 billion.Compared to 2007, crop sales were 48 percent higher and livestock sales were up 19 percent.(Table 1) Crops accounted for 54 percent of agriculture sales in 2012.Five years earlier they accounted for just under half of sales.n contrast, less than half of one percent of farms had agriculture sales of more than $5 million, but these few farms produced 32 percent of the total value of all agricultural products sold. Farms with sales of $1 million or more 4 percent of all farms produced 66 percent of the total value. (Fig.