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Poultry, peanuts, pecans, peaches, and people
- When it comes to Georgia agriculture, it’s all about the Ps – poultry, peanuts, pecans, peaches, and people. As the results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture show, Georgia continued to lead the nation in poultry, peanut, and pecan production and ranked third in peaches.
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Commodity Planted All Purpose Acres Harvested Acres Yield Production Price per Unit Value of Production in Dollars; COTTON: COTTON, UPLAND: 1,110,000: 1,100,000
Forestry, forest products and timber tract production 9,137 Real estate 9,020 Commercial logging 6,848 Greenhouse nursery, and floriculture production 6,412 Sawmills 5,286 The economic contribution of food and fiber plus related industries adds up to nearly $6,500 per person in Georgia. Source: Calculations using the U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts,
- Early History
- “King Cotton”
- Farm Population
WhenGeneral James E. Oglethorpeled the first settlement of English colonists at Savannahin 1733, one of their goals was to find crops that could be profitably grown and exported to England. Oglethorpe sought the advice and counsel of Tomochichi, leader of the Yamacraw people, who were skilled in hunting, fishing, and cultivating maize (corn), beans...
Cotton and tobacco became the major crops in Georgia after American independence because the loss of British markets and subsidies undercut other lucrative crops like indigo. Initially, cotton was limited to Georgia’s sea islands, but the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 near Savannah revolutionized the cotton industry. Short-stap...
Georgia remained an agrarian state until after World War II (1941-45). The rural population did not decrease much between 1920, when there were 2.1 million rural people and 310,000 farms, and 1960, when there were still 1.98 million rural residents. Over time, though, the proportion of the population living in rural areas decreased from about 85 pe...
Cotton ranks No. 1 in production value among row and forage crops in Georgia and No. 2 in the nation. In 2019, Georgia produced more than one half of the nation’s peanuts. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service, Quick Stats, Peanut Production Measured in lbs. 2019.
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Leading Georgia Agricultural Highlights: 2021 Commodity Item U.S. Rank Quantity Production Broilers 1 1.30 billion head Peanuts 1 3.34 billion lbs Pecans, Utilized 1 88.6 million lbs Cotton Lint 2 2.21 million bales Cotton Seed 2 612 thousand tons Watermelon 2 6.93 million cwt Blueberries 3 86.5 million lbs
Oct 11, 2013 · Georgia farmers harvested 1.3 million acres of cotton, resulting in 2.9 million bales. Peanuts – The official state crop of Georgia raked in $1.1 billion in 2013. The 1.65 billion pound yield accounted for about half the nation’s peanuts. Chicken Eggs – Georgia cracked the top five chicken egg producing states in the nation, coming in at ...
The 2020 Ag Snapshots report on Georgia’s agricultural economy is based on the 2018 Georgia Farm Gate Value Report, an annual, county-level economic valuation for all food and fiber production in the state. Together these commodities directly represent a value of over $13.76 billion to the Georgia economy.
