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Forecasted agriculture sales break state records
OSU Extension reports Oregon making $4.4 billion in ag sales within the previous year
Nick Ngo
Issue date: 5/24/07 Section: News
Oregon agricultural sales hit the jackpot as OSU Extension calculates a record high $4.4 billion in Oregon's 2006 agricultural statistics report.
Larry Burt, head of the annual Oregon agricultural statistics report, said that sales have been hitting record highs within the past couple of years.
"In all the years of data that I've looked at, the 2006 year is the largest estimate ever recorded," Burt said. "Last year we had just under $4.1 billion."
OSU Extension Services post all their annual reports on a Web site, The Oregon Agricultural Information Network.
They track the agricultural production sold annually in Oregon. Products sold are called commodities, they include field crops, grains, small fruit and berries, vegetables and truck crops, cattle and calves and dairy products.
Burt said the data produced in the annual report is just an estimate.
"Nobody knows what the real number is," Burt said. "Sometimes they're close, sometimes they're not so close."
Even though they're just estimate figures, Burt said there are different people who use the agricultural sales data, ranging from those who are looking to build farms, government agencies using this to track agricultural sales and county planners.
"In particular is measure 37 - they need to come up with values for agricultural land," Burt said. "Bankers use the data for lending purposes, appraisers refer to it come up with estimate for the value of agricultural lands.
"It's a wide variety of people that use this database, I even had communication from people all over the U.S. and other parts of the world."
A pie chart located on the Web site reports that 75 percent of the sales are from crops and 25 percent are from livestock. All sales total $4,400,588.
The highest sales made from crops are in nursery and greenhouse crops with $816 million. Cattle and calves made $636 million making it the most sought after of livestock commodities.
Larry Burt, head of the annual Oregon agricultural statistics report, said that sales have been hitting record highs within the past couple of years.
"In all the years of data that I've looked at, the 2006 year is the largest estimate ever recorded," Burt said. "Last year we had just under $4.1 billion."
OSU Extension Services post all their annual reports on a Web site, The Oregon Agricultural Information Network.
They track the agricultural production sold annually in Oregon. Products sold are called commodities, they include field crops, grains, small fruit and berries, vegetables and truck crops, cattle and calves and dairy products.
Burt said the data produced in the annual report is just an estimate.
"Nobody knows what the real number is," Burt said. "Sometimes they're close, sometimes they're not so close."
Even though they're just estimate figures, Burt said there are different people who use the agricultural sales data, ranging from those who are looking to build farms, government agencies using this to track agricultural sales and county planners.
"In particular is measure 37 - they need to come up with values for agricultural land," Burt said. "Bankers use the data for lending purposes, appraisers refer to it come up with estimate for the value of agricultural lands.
"It's a wide variety of people that use this database, I even had communication from people all over the U.S. and other parts of the world."
A pie chart located on the Web site reports that 75 percent of the sales are from crops and 25 percent are from livestock. All sales total $4,400,588.
The highest sales made from crops are in nursery and greenhouse crops with $816 million. Cattle and calves made $636 million making it the most sought after of livestock commodities.
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