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Census of Agriculture 2022 and 2012, county tables as read
The county's field order is corn, then a long fall to everything else. In 2022, corn for grain ran on 213 farms across 71,437 acres, returning 12,273,499 bushels; wheat ran on 33 farms, 2,510 acres, 171,012 bushels — the atlas's "abundant crop" persisting at county scale as a minor line. In 2012 the same order held larger: corn on 276 farms and 77,076 acres (10,668,630 bushels), wheat on 50 farms and 2,853 acres (186,557 bushels). Livestock is the county's small side: 5,217 head of cattle in 2012, 1,726 milk cows that year, and by 2022 only fifteen farms reporting milk cows at all — the dairy contraction the township test below confirms from the other direction. The county's money tells its modern story: market value of products sold was $162.2 million in 2022, and in 2012 the crop category that includes nursery and greenhouse production accounted for $106.9 million of $123.5 million sold — a category total, printed as such and not as nursery sales alone, but enough to show where the county's farm weight now sits: under glass and in the nursery trade at its urban edge, the line the town's own garden center belongs to, rather than in the field crops its first farmers planted.