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Robeson
County: Agricultural
Census
Selected variables for county
| Item | 1997 | 1992 | 1987 | ||||
| Number of Farms | 1,004 | 1,193 | 1,476 | ||||
| Land in farms (acres) | 285,186 | 292,152 | 305,481 | ||||
| Average farm size (acres) | 284 | 245 | 207 | ||||
| Average farm value ($)* | 377,101 | 238,469 | 180,795 | ||||
| Average farm value per acre ($)* | 1,378 | 1,000 | 869 | ||||
| County land area* | 607,297 | 607,297 | (N) | ||||
| Proportion of county in farms (%)* | 47 | 48.1 | (N) | ||||
| Number of farms with 1 to 99 acres | 539 | 659 | 850 | ||||
| Number of farms with 100 to 999 acres | 393 | 470 | 576 | ||||
| Number of farms with 1000 to 1999 acres | 48 | 50 | 33 | ||||
| Number of farms with 2000 to more acres | 24 | 14 | 17 | ||||
| Number of farm with crops | 948 | 1,135 | 1,422 | ||||
| Total land in crops (acres) | 214,259 | 223,813 | 218,704 | ||||
| Number of farms with idle cropland | 188 | 331 | 674 | ||||
| Idle cropland (acres) | 5,714 | 14,640 | 35,462 | ||||
| Number of farms with woodland | 494 | 596 | 687 | ||||
| Total land in woodland (acres) | 54,831 | 59,694 | 63,479 | ||||
| Number of farms with Pastureland | 303 | 315 | 382 | ||||
| Total Pastureland | 13,701 | 12,306 | 26,060 | ||||
| Number of farms under Wetland Reserve Pr | 24 | 39 | 28 | ||||
| Total land under Wetland Reserve Program | 663 | 1,085 | 930 | ||||
| (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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