Fresno's Top 10 Crops
Grapes
$613,710,000
Total grape value was up $50,959,000 or 9.06 percent from 2006. The value of fresh table variety grapes decreased by 23.20 percent and the total value of fresh raisin variety grapes also decreased by 53.69 percent, while the value of dried raisins increased 30.13 percent to $341,061,000.
Grapes have remained number one on the top ten crop list since 2002.
Almonds
$511,927,000
Almonds continued to hold the number two spot on the tope ten crop list even though the total value for meats decreased by $16,960,000.
Milk
$493,514,000
Milk moved from sixth to third on the top ten crop list. The total value of manufactured and market milk increased 8.27 and 66.67 percent respectively. Manufactured hundred weight produced decreased, but market milk price per hundred weight increased from $11.74 to $18.89(per cwt).
Poultry
$481,897,000
The total value of turkeys increased to $59,843,000 due to increases in the number of head, total liveweight and price per pound.
Tomatoes
$475,057,000
Tomatoes fell two places on the top ten crop list, from third to fifth. Total tomato value increased 18.13 percent, due mostly to the processed tomato value increasing by 39.05 percent.
Cattle and Calves
$339,344,000
Cattle and calves increased in value by 7.03 percent over 2006, which is an increase of $22,275,000.
Cotton
$248,227,000
Upland Acala and non Acala cotton acreage decreased by 30.00 percent from 66,000 acres to 46,200 acres. Production of lint per acre of Upland cotton increased by 17.90 percent, while the price per pound held steady. The total value for cotton increased by $2,956,000 or 1.21 percent, but still held at number seven on the top ten crop list.
Peaches
$212,249,000
Total value of peaches increased $19,940,000 or 10.37 percent.
Oranges
$190,107,000
Total orange values increased 18.82 percent or $30,119,000, which was due mainly to the excellent fresh price increase (46 percent).
Garlic
$178,508,000
Total fresh garlic values increased by $66,160,000.
All information provided by Fresno County Department of Agriculture.