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Brunswick County, VA: Agricultural Census
Selected variables for county

Item	1997	1992	1987
Number of Farms	294	338	402
Land in farms (acres)	79,163	84,677	101,284
Average farm size (acres)	269	251	252
Average farm value ($)*	330,987	220,808	181,681
Average farm value per acre ($)*	1,136	841	697
County land area*	362,345	362,345	(N)
Proportion of county in farms (%)*	21.8	23.4	(N)
Number of farms with 1 to 99 acres	109	130	167
Number of farms with 100 to 999 acres	171	194	220
Number of farms with 1000 to 1999 acres	10	11	11
Number of farms with 2000 to more acres	4	3	4
Number of farm with crops	275	324	385
Total land in crops (acres)	32,599	35,411	39,626
Number of farms with idle cropland	90	93	145
Idle cropland (acres)	3,766	3,789	5,236
Number of farms with woodland	235	262	268
Total land in woodland (acres)	40,140	43,398	50,271
Number of farms with Pastureland	200	216	222
Total Pastureland	17,999	17,005	22,840
Number of farms under Wetland Reserve Programs	88	78	41
Total land under Wetland Reserve Program (acres)	3,861	2,956	1,449
(D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual farms.
(B) Data not available due to brackets.
(X) Not applicable.
(Z) Less than half of the unit shown.
(N) Not available.
(H) Standard error or relative standard error of estimate is greater than or equal to 99.95 percent.
(L) Standard error or relative standard error of estimate is less than 0.05 percent.
(S) Withheld because estimate did not meet publication standards on the basis of either the response rate or a consistency review.

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