With the recent
release of the 2012 Census of Agriculture I wanted to look at some of the longer term trends in farming. One of the things that looked interesting was examining the changes in the overall commodities that local agribusinesses have produced over the last, let's say, 20 years. I did this both in terms of their annual sales (in inflation adjusted dollars), and as a percent of the total annual commodities market.
If nothing else is clear, this much should be: milk and dairy products are kings in Oneida County! Far and away the single largest piece of the market belongs to cows ! As the chart below shows, dairy production has made up more than half of the total agricultural business market in the county in each census since 1992. Interestingly, though, it appears to have taken a bit of a slide downward in the last few years, slipping from 64% to about 54% of the total market.
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Of course what comprises the remainder of the farm commodities is also of interest. In the next chart, you can see what percent of the total market seven other groups of commodities made up annually in each census year.
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To get a better view of how each commodity has fared since 1992, below are sets of graphs showing the inflation adjusted sales value for each of these agribusinesses in Oneida County from 1992 through 2012. By examining each on it's own merit, you can see whether they appear to have grown in market share, declined in market share, or remained relatively stable over the past 20 years.
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