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Dairy's share of farm cash receipts: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Dairy's share of farm cash receipts (%, derived). All 50 states with data in Farm cash receipts and income by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

RI 2.3 %
DE 0.5 %
CT 9.3 %
NJ 1 %
MD 5.4 %
MA 6.6 %
VT 56.3 %
NH 13.1 %

Lowest: 0.1 to 1 %
Group 2: 1 to 2.3 %
Group 3: 2.3 to 7.8 %
Group 4: 7.8 to 14.4 %
Highest: 14.4 to 56.3 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: 2025 state figures are USDA ERS estimates and will be revised; net farm income can be negative.


1	Vermont	56.3
2	New York	48.5
3	Wisconsin	42
4	Idaho	32
5	New Mexico	25.3
6	Michigan	23.1
7	Pennsylvania	20
8	Arizona	17.5
9	Utah	15.8
10	Nevada	14.4
11	New Hampshire	13.1
12	California	13
13	Maine	11.9
14	Texas	11.7
15	Colorado	10.9
16	Washington	10.4
17	Minnesota	9.8
18	Connecticut	9.3
19	Ohio	8.8
20	South Dakota	7.8
21	Oregon	7
22	Virginia	6.7
23	Massachusetts	6.6
24	Indiana	6.2
25	Maryland	5.4
26	Florida	5.1
27	Georgia	4.1
28	Kansas	3.7
29	Iowa	3.1
30	Rhode Island	2.3
31	Kentucky	2.1
32	Oklahoma	1.8
32	Tennessee	1.8
34	Illinois	1.6
35	West Virginia	1.3
36	Wyoming	1.2
37	Missouri	1.1
37	North Carolina	1.1
39	New Jersey	1
39	South Carolina	1
41	Alaska	0.9
42	Nebraska	0.8
43	Louisiana	0.7
43	Montana	0.7
45	Delaware	0.5
45	North Dakota	0.5
47	Mississippi	0.4
48	Hawaii	0.3
49	Alabama	0.1
49	Arkansas	0.1

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Farm Income and Wealth Statistics, U.S. and state-level data files, September 3, 2026 release. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by dairy's share of farm cash receipts (%, derived) (2025). Data: USDA Economic Research Service, Farm Income and Wealth Statistics, U.S. and state-level data files, September 3, 2026 release; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-dairys-share-of-farm-cash-receipts/

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