A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9,1989
Dairy Products Dominate New York’s Agriculture
WASHINGTON. D.C.
Dairy products accounted for 55
percent of New York’s agricultur
al sales in 1987, figures from the
Commerce Department’s Census
Bureau show. The milk cow total
of 814,461 in 1987 was 7 percent
below the 875,113 reported in
1982. Dairy products amounting
to $1.3 billion were sold from
12,864 farms.
The 1987 Census of Agrigul
ture shows that New York’s agri
cultural sales totaled $2.4 billion.
Livestock, poultry, and their pro
ducts accounted for $1.7 billion or
71 percent of total agricultural
sales. Crops, including nursery
and greenhouse products, ac
counted for $7Ol million or 29
percent of total agricultural sales.
The 37,743 New York farms
counted in 1987 were 11 percent
fewer than in 1982, when the last
agriculture census was taken.
Some 20,622 had 1987 sales of
$lO,OOO or more, and 7,299 had
sales t>f $lOO,OOO or more.
Production expenditures for the
state’s agricultural operations
came to $1.9 billion. Agricultural
operators paid 13 percent less for
commercial fertilizers, 8 percent
more for agricultural chemicals,
and 13 percent more for hired
farm labor than they did in 1982.
They spent 10 percent less for
livestock and poultry feed.
For more information of pub
lished reports and machine read
able data from the 1987 Census of
Agriculture, and also data from
previous agriculture censuses,
Contact the Agriculture Division,
Bureau of the Census, Room 436,
Iverson Mall, Washington, D.C.
20233, ATTN: Agriculture Infor
mation Specialist; or call (301)
763-1113.
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More highlights from the 1987
Census of Agriculture for New
York are listed on page 2. Dollar
values in this release and on the
fact sheet have not been adjusted
for changes in price levels. Since
sampling is used to collect data for
selected items and to account for
nonresponding farm operations,
the results are subject to sampling
variability as well as reporting and
more coverage errors.
Farm & Land Statistics
• Some 32 percent of New
York’s farms were- 180 to 499
acres, and 10 percent were 500
acres or more. The average size of
a farm was 223'acres.
• The state’s farms operators re
ported that crops were harvested
from 3,899,819 acres in 1987 and
that irrigated acres totaled 50,920.
Irrigated land decreased 2 percent,
and harvested cropland declined
12 percent between 1982 and
1987.
• The 1987 census shows hay
was harvested from 2,259,119
acres, com for grain from 598,815
acres, corn for silage from
525,458 acres, oats for grain from
162,733 acres, and vegetables for
sale from 150,054 acres; land in
orchards totaled 124,432 acres.
• Farms growing nursery and
greenhouse crops, mushrooms,
and sod for sale received $168.2
million for these products, up
from $lOB.B million in 1982.
Livestock, Animal Specialties
And Their Products
. • The cattle and calf inventory
on the 22,250 farms reporting
such stock totaled 1,603,309,
down from 1982.
• Sales of poultry and their pro
ducts totaled $90.3 million. Some
3,236 farms reported an inventory
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• The value of sales of fish and
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Conerly
LOUISVILLE, KY. James
W. McDowell Jr., chief executive
officer of Dairymen, Inc.,
announced Tuesday, Aug. 29, the
appointment of Steve G. Conerly
as chief executive officer of Flav-
O-Rich, Inc. Flav-O-Rich is a
wholly owned subsidiary of
Dairymen, Inc., a regional milk
marketing cooperative owned by
5,000 dairy farmer members.
A native of Louisiana, Conerly
received his bachelor’s and mas
ter’s degrees in agricultural eco
nomics from Louisiana State Uni
versity, and his Ph.D. degree from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University in Blacksburg,
Va. Early in his career, Conerly
worked as a consultant, later join
ing Pet, Inc. where he served in
various management capacities
from 1971 until the dairy division
was sold in 1985. Since that time,
he has served as president and
chief executive officer of the new
company, Land-O-Sun Dairies
Inc., vice president of Altanta
Dairies and executive vice presi
dent of the parent company,
Finevest Foods Inc. Conerly res
Operator Characteristics.
• The census shows that 85 per
cent of the state’s agricultural
operators with sales of $lO,OOO or
more considered farming to be
their principal occupation. Of the
5,928 agricultural operators with
sales of $ 10,000 or more reporting
off-farm work, 47 percent said
they did such work 200 days or
more.
• Some 85 percent of the farms
were operated by individuals or
Joins Dairymen, Inc.
igned from the Finevest organiza
tion earlier this year.
“Steve Conerly has a proven
track record and will bring to
Flav-O-Rich the insight in the area
of milk maiketing he has deve
loped throughout his 20-year
career in the dairy industry,”
McDowell said. “We have deter
mined Steve to be the best quali
fied person to head our Flav-O-
Rich organization and to make the
business decisions that are neces
sary to enable us to reach our
desired levels of profitability.”
In addition to his dairy industry cheese, yogurt and novelty items
career, Conerly has taken active under the Flav-O-Rich, Rich &
leadership roles in civic and Creamy and Ehrler’s brand
industry organizations in Tennes- names. Additionally, Flav-O-Rich
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families ar'sole proprietorships.
Partnerships accounted for 10 per
cent. Of die 4 percent that were
corporate farms, 91 percent were
family operations.
• Women operated 2,736 farms
and 151 farms were operated by
minorities.
• The average age of New York
farm operators was 51 years.
About 46 percent, or 17,275 agri
cultural operators, were 35 to 54
years old.
tion and the board of advisors to
its College of Business.
Conerly and his wife, Jean,
have two daughters, Kathy and
Kelly, and one son, Ken.
Flav-O-Rich, along with other
Dairymen facilities and joint ven
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