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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 Programs 24 39 28
Total land under Wetland Reserve Program (acres) 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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