The Economic Importance of Food and Fiber

Prepared for: Hart County Cooperative Extension Service November, 2003
by: The Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences The University of Georgia

Agriculture in Georgia

Georgia's farm gate value of production in 2002 was $8.8 billion.
Total food and fiber production and marketing chains account for $57 billion of Georgia's $353 billion economy (Kriesel 1997).

Georgia Farm Gate Value: 2002 - Total = $8,825,753,907

Table 1: Georgia Agricultural Production

Agriculture in Hart County

Agricultural production in Hart County generated $185 million in 2002. The highest value commodity group is broiler-integrator, representing 47% of the total agricultural production value.

Table 2:
2002 Agricultural Production in Hart County

Table 3:
Hart County 2002 Top ten Commodities

Trends in Hart County:
Number of Farms & Average Farm Size

Table 4: Number of Farms in Hart County

Table 5: Average Farm Size in Hart County

Land in Farms & Farms by Size

Table 6: Land in Farms in Hart County

Table 7:
Percent of Farms by Size in Hart County, 1997

Commodities

Table 8: Number of Farms by Commodity

The Center for Agribusiness
& Economic Development

“Adding Value to Georgia's Agricultural Economy Through Research and Extension“

To learn more about Hart county, go to:
http://www.agecon.uga.edu/~caed
then click on “Georgia Statistics System”