- T^DEFUNIAK SPRINGS* • JACXSONViUE PENSACOLA PANAMA CITyI This outline map of Florida has been requested by numerous firms and individuals in Florida and in other states. The map is a reproduction of a larger map reduced in size to meet the requirements of this Annual Report. The county designation is therefore in very small print. The cities and towns were superimposed on this map and are in much larger print. Most of the larger cities of the state are shown. The locations of our field market news stations are shown as weE as most of the leading livestock markets. There are a few other cities to represent general agricultural sections. Tallahassee is the capitol of the state, and the Florida State Department of Agriculture is located there. The Florida State Marketing Bureau is in Jacksonville. The office of the Director of Florida State Farmers' Markets is located in Winter Haven. The Agricultural Extension Service and College of Agriculture are located at Gainesville. The U. S. Agricultural Marketing Service (Florida agricultural statis- tics) is in Orlando. Winter Haven, Fla., in Polk County, is the headquarters of the Florida Citrus and Vegetable In- spection Division with a branch office in Orlando. The Federal-State Shipping Point Market News offices are located as follows: (1) Lakeland for citrus; (2) Plant City for strawberries, vegetables and waterinelons; (3) Hastings for potatoes and cabbage; (4) Sanford-Oviedo for celery, cabbage, corn and vegetables; (5) Belle Glade for beans. celery, corn and vegetables; (6) Pompano for beans, peppers, and vegetables. Florida City and Dade County, Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, Immokalee, Oxford, Palmetto, Ruskin, Sarasota! Weirsdale, Wauchula, Webster and Zellwood vegetables are reported in field Market News reports; (7) Avocado, Ume, mango report released Jacksonville office June 15-Oct. 31. Florida poultry and egg markets reported include Jacksonville and Northeast Florida Poultry (Federal - State) Tampa, Miami, West Palm Beach, Orlando, St. Petersburg Clearwater. Ft. Myers and Lower West Coast, Tallahassee. Panama City and Pensacola. Livestock auction markets reported include Gainesville Live t^ JCik^t (*.'•••• Oak, Ocala, Arcadia. Lakeland, Wauchula, Monticello. Mananna, Lake City, Graceville, Belle Glade, Okeechobee, Kissimmee, Tampa, Orlando, Webster. Direct sales: Slaughter <-.attle: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Ocala, Quincy-Marianna. t arm and ranch feeders and stockers all Florida. FLORIDA AGRICULTURE ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICAL SUMMARY 1960-61 SEASON November 1961 STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DO¥LE CONNER, COMMISSIONER Florida State Marketins Bureau Jacksonville 1, Florida — FORTY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT — L. T. Pendarvis, Acting Chief By Elmo F. Scarborough, Market News Specialist and Bureau Staff - - NOTEWORTHY Page 6: Consumer income and expenditure for food during the winter of I96I-62 is expected to be well above level of previous season. Page 14: Hurricane Donna's path across Florida, September 10-11, i960. Pages 17-19: Freeze hazards in Florida's Ridge District. 25-year summary of critical temperatures. Page 20: Farm labor needs expected to increase for I96I-62 season. Page 21: Eighty percent of the State's I96O-6I orange crop utilized by processors. Page 94: An equivalent of 3,700,000 film bags (retail store size) of radishes were shipped to market in I96O-6I. Pages 134-141: Interstate shipments of Florida cut flowers recorded with one season comparisons. Page 162: Disposition of imported fluid milk to Florida milkshed area. Page 174: Comparison of egg production in Florida to that of other States. Page 197: How to increase per head value of Florida cattle. This Annual Report is available free of charge to parties requesting it. FLORIDA VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION PRELIMINARY FINAL 1960-$1 1959-60 CITRUS $35^,789,000 $275,010,000 TRUCK CROPS 171,6^3,000 169, '^76, 000 1961 i960 OTIiER FRUITS AND EDIBLE NUTS $ 3,716,000 $ 2,379,000 FIELD CROPS 84,680,000 75.443,000 LIVESTOCK 78,325,000 70,166,000 DAIRY PRODUCTS 87,700,000 89,078,000 POULTRY AND EGG PRODUCTS , 50 , 350 000 43,245,000 HORTICULTURAL SPECIALTIES 38,000,000 37,655,000 FOREST AND MISC. PRODUCTS 17.700.000 16.943.000 ALL COMMODITIES (TOTAL) $886,903,000 $779,395,000 GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS 9.100.000 7.072.000 TOTAL VALUE OF AGRI. PRODUCTION $896.003.000 $786.467.000 Fruit and vegetable values are for the production season August through July, while other commodity values are for the calendar year. Detailed review of Florida Value of Agricultural Production is shown on Pages 2 and 3- TABLE OF CONTENTS Most of the following materials contain historical data on Florida acreage, produc- tion, and value. Some deal with county acreage only. AGRICULTURAL REVIEWS PAGE NO. NEWS RELEASE - Summary 1 VALUE OF PRODUCTION 2-3 AGRICULTURAL CASH RECEIPTS AND PROSPECTIVE DEMND 4-6 SHIPMENTS - Fruits and Vegetables - Eight Seasons 7-11 ESTDIATED DISPOSITION OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 12-13 WEATHER 14-19 LABOR NEEDS IN AGRICULTURE 20 FARM CREDIT 21 FARMERS PAID FOR ITEMS - U.S. Index & Prices 22-23 INDEX OR PRODUCTION 24 CITRUS WORID CITRUS PRODUCTION 25 CITRUS ANALYSIS - ORANGES, GRAPEFRUIT, TANGERINES AND LIMES 26-38 Shipments, Valuations, Prices, Disposition, Including Cost and Net Returns ON -TREE PRICES 39-^1 F.O.B. PRICES Aim F.O.B. VALUES 42-44 AUCTION SALES 45-47 CITRUS COSTS - Picking, Hauling, Packing, Warehouses, etc. 48-49 CITRUS TREE NURSERY MOVEMENT 50-51 ACREAGE - Florida Bearing Tree Basis, Total Florida and U.S. 52-5^ PROCESS CITRUS 55-58 FRESH DISTRIBUTION - Rail and Truck - I96O-6I Season 59-61 EXPORTS 62 SHIPPING RATES AND CONTAINER INFORMATION 63-65 WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND EQUIVALENTS 66 INSPECTION BY RAIL AND TRUCK I96O-6I 67 AVOCADOS - LIMES ACREAGE, PRODUCTION AND VALUE, Limited Data on Limes 68-69 TRUCK CROPS TRUCK CROP SUMf-lARY - I96O-6I Season 70-71 STATE ACREAGE, PRODUCTION, VALUE AND SHIPMENTS - 1? Selected Commodities 72-90 MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES - Crops not Officially Reported 91-94 95-104 COUNTY ACREAGE BY COMMODITIES - 4- Seasons 105-112 F.O.B. SHIPPING POINT PRICES - I96O-6I Season SHIPPING RATES - I96O-6I Season 113-115 SHIPPING CONTAINER INFORMATION - I96O-6I Season 116 UNLOADS - Rail and Truck - Florida and Competition - I96O-6I Season 117-123 124-125 IMPORTS INTO FLORIDA - VJeekly and Monthly - I96O-6I Season 126-129 RAIL AND TRUCK SHIPMENTS - Weekly - I96O-6I Season 130-131 TRUCK DESTINATIONS - I96O-6I Season INSPECTED FRUIT AND VEGETABLE ITEMS - I96O-6I Season 132 TRUCK SHIPMENTS THROUGH ROAD GUARD STATIONS - I96O-6I Season 133 HORTICULTURAL SPECIALTIES 134-142 CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND GLADIOLUS SHIPMENTS B FIELD CROPS PAGE NO. CORN 143 COTTON 144 HAY - Acreage and Production 14$ FEED AND HAY - Monthly Prices, 12 Selected 146-14? SOY BEANS 148 OATS 148 HONEY AND BEESWAX - Florida and U.S„ l49 PEANUTS 150-151 TOBACCO I52-I56 MAINLAND SUGAR PROGRAM - I96O I56 TREE NUTS, Pecans and Tung Nuts 157 DAIRYING MILK PRODUCTION, DISPOSITION AND INCOME I58 MILK USED AND MARKETED IN FLORIDA 159 MILK PRODUCTION kW VALUE By Supervised Areas I6O-I6I DAIRY PRODUCTS SHIPPED INTO FLORIDA I62-I63 MILK PRODUCTION. DISPOSITION AND INCOffi l64 FORESTRY FORESTRY STATISTICS - FLORIDA I65-I66 POULTRY AMD EGGS ALL POULTRY AND EGGS - TOTAL VALUE 16? LEADING POULTRY AND EGG PRODUCING COUNTIES 16? CHICKENS ON FARMS 16? COMMERCIAL BROILERS I68 FARM EGGS I68 POULTRY NUMBERS AS OF JANUARY 1 I68 TURKEYS - Florida and U,S, I69 COMPOSITION OF COMMERCIAL FLOCKS BY AREAS 170 FLORIDA POULTRY AND EGG CENSUS STATISTICS 171 POULTRY PRODUCTION BY STATES 172 BROILER PUCEMENTS - WEEKLY - 3 Seasons 173 EGGS - PRODUCTION. VALUE - BY STATES 17^-175 MARKET PRICES - FLORIDA - POULTRY AI\1D EGGS 176-179 LIVESTOCK (Principally Cattle and Hog Statistics) INTRODUCTION IBO WORLD NUMBERS, by Countries 181 UNITED STATES: Numbers, Production, Slaughter, Prices, Income, Consumption 182-18? FLORIDA: Numbers, Production, Marketings, Slaughter, Income, Prices, 188-204 Increasing Quality and Values, Grade Percentages LIVESTOCK SHIPMENTS 205 SHRINKAGE TABLE, PREVENTABLE LOSSES 206-20? SLAUGHTERING PLANTS, PROCESSORS, AUCTION MARKETS 208-210 s „ DEFINITIONS Rarely is it possible to indicate the total money value of any specific group of agricultural crops on a. comparable basis with another group of crops„ In other words, the level at which agricsultural commodities are traded varies with the particular items as well as the i»rtioular areas in which the trading takes place „ At the present there is no canmon den^asninator for the tabulation of all agricultural products „ For example p the total value of sweet potatoes is figured on an F.OoB„ basis ^ minus selling charges in Florida, Louisiana, and California, while in New Jersey and the Carclinas, they are calculated on a price paid at the faiTOo Ihis is due to the differing systems of trading in these States, Since there is no feasible method for calculating agricultural piroduots to the same canmon denominators, various methods based on economic principal - of expressing the money value of production, sales and income - have been accepted by the U,S„ Department of Agricultureo Definitions generally used throughout this report follows Value of production is computed by applying the season average price re- ceived by growers for quantities sold from a particular crop or during the market- ing season, depending on the cammodity„ to the total quantities produced^ Similarly, the value of sales is the tinit price applied to the quantity sold from a particular crop or during the marketing season, depending on the commodity In other words, the -»silue of production is the money worth of the total crop grown for har-vest while the value of sales is the money received for the por-bion of the harvested crop aold on the market. For example, if a farmer feeds The corn he produces to his livestock it has a production value. However, since no money was received it has no sale value.