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1999
Idaho Acreage and Farm Receipts
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Acres
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X
$1,000
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| Potatoes |
393,000 |
$638,212
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| Wheat |
1,350,000 |
$264,439
|
| Hay |
1,430,000 |
$213,083
|
| Sugar
Beets |
210,000 |
$203,610
|
| Barley |
690,000 |
$120,919
|
| Greenhouse |
|
$64,086
|
| Onions |
8,000 |
$37,200
|
| Dry
Beans |
103,000 |
$35,456
|
| Mint |
19,800 |
$17,248
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| Corn |
161,000 |
$14,615
|
| Apples |
5,705 |
$11,465
|
| Lentils |
56,000 |
$9,576
|
| Hops |
3,362 |
$7,669
|
| Dry
Peas |
67,000 |
$6,546
|
| Peaches |
1,121 |
$3,726
|
| Cherries |
776 |
$2,720
|
| Oats |
25,000 |
$1,079
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| Other |
|
$81,095
|
| Total |
4,527,075 |
$1,744,410
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If Idahoans
had to consume all the products produced within the state, each
resident would eat or drink:
- 63 potatoes
per day
- 288 slices
of bread per day
- 24 glasses
of milk or 1.3 pounds of cheese per day
- 2.5 beef
steaks or 5 quarter pounders per day
- 1 apple
per day
- and more!
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National
Rankings of Idaho Products
Potatoes 1
Trout 1
Austrian winter peas 1
Wrinkled seed peas 1
Small white/red beans 1
Pink beans 1
Lentils 2
Edible peas 2
Garbanzo beans 2
(chickpeas)
Sugar beets 3
Barley 3
Mint 3
Hops 3
Onions 3
Nearly one-third of Idaho’s agriculture production is exported.
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A look at
Idaho livestock numbers
Total head
(1999):
Cattle and calves 1,950,000
Poultry 1,301,000
Dairy cattle 318,000
Sheep and lambs 245,000
Hogs and pigs 22,975
People 1,228,684
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In stark contrast
to today, the UI campus offered wide-open parking in the mid-1900s.
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An early bulletin
from the College of Ag.
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Four horses
and a lone farmer change the UI landscape in the early 1900s.
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