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CROPS AND LIVESTOCK
Agribusiness
This transition brought drastic changes
within the business of agriculture, called
agribusiness. As producers specialized, they
looked beyond the farm or ranch for more
services.
From 1940 to date, the proportion ot
Texans whose livelihood is related to agri-
culture has not changed greatly. But divi-
sions within this 40 to 45 per cent of the
population associated with farming and
ranching, supplying, distributing and proc-
essing were drastically altered. Texas A&M
agricultural economists estimate them as
follows :
In 1940, 34 per cent of all Texans were
producers on farms or ranches. Now, fewer
than 8 per cent are engaged in production,
although the volume and quality of their
products is higher.
Only 4 per cent were suppliers to farm-
ers and ranchmen in 1940. Today about
12 per cent derive all or part of their in-
come from supplying farmers and ranch-
men.
Processors and distributors of agricul-
tural commodities comprised only 7 per
cent of all Texans in 1940. Now about 20
per cent are in this category.
Total Texas agribusiness averages ap-
proximately 6.6 billion dollars yearly. Its
major components include:
Crop sales bring cash receipts averag-
ing $1,361,556,000.
Livestock and their products cash re.
ceipts average $1,075,332,000.
Products produced and used at home
by farmers and ranchmen average $42,293,-
000 yearly.
Goods and services which farmers and
ranchmen get from suppliers average
$1,800,000,000 annually.
After farm and ranch commodities have
been produced, 98 per cent move into com-
mercial channels. Assemblers, transport-
ers, processors, wholesalers, retailers, etc.
of Texas agricultural produce add approxi-
mately $2,300,000,000 to the economy.
In sum, on-the-farm agribusiness aver-
ages about 2.5 billion dollars yearly; off-
the-farm averages 4.1 billion dollars.
Data on employment, payrolls, value
added by manufacture directly related to
agriculture are incomplete and inexact.
Tables in this chapter, however, provide
statistics for some phases of agribusiness.
Farmers' Cash Expenditures
USDA estimated total production ex-
penses of Texas farmers in 1965 at $1,913,-
200,000; in 1964 at $1,801,100,000; and in 1963
at $1,861,700,000. Total current operating ex-
penses (excluding capital depreciation, farm
taxes, debt interest and net rent) were
$1,417,000,000 in 1965, $1,343,800,000 in 1964
and $1,434,600,000 in 1963.
The 1965 current farm operating ex-
penses included: Purchased feed $313,800,-
000, livestock $198,600,000, seed $31,700,000,
fertilizer and lime $84,000,000, repairs, etc.
$272,000,000, miscellaneous $300,400,00.FARMERS' PROPERTY TAXES AND
HIRED LABOR EXPENSES
This table, from U.S. Department of
Agriculture, lists Texas farmers' payments
of taxes on farm property, wages for hired
labor and interest on farm mortgage debt.
Figures are rounded.
(Millions of dollars; add 000,000.)
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1949... $319.8 $40.9 $17.0 1958... 235.3 58.11 37.5
1950... 341.1 42.8 18.9 1959...1 248.7 65.41 40.9
1951... 327.6 44.1 20.8 1960... 251.1 70.61 43.3
1952... 293.9 46.0 22.9 1961... 273.9 77.91 46.9
1953... 266.4 47.1 25.2 1962... 275.9 82.51 53.4
1954... 244.0 48.5 27.1 1963... 250.01 84.41 61.1
1955... 253.5 51.5 29.4 1964... 236.0 87.21 71.2
1956... 227.2 52.0 32.2 1965...1 216.6 91.71 81.3
1957... 245.3 53.0 34.6
*Includes cash wages, perquisites and (1951-65)
Social Security taxes paid by employers.
COMMERCIAL FEED TONNAGE
This table shows the tonnage of com-
mercial feed on which inspection fees were
paid in Texas, as reported by Texas Feed
and Fertilizer Control Service. The sharp
decline between 1963-64 and 1964-65 resulted
from a legal ruling that feeds used in com-
mercial feedlots or contract poultry feeding
were not subject to the law.Total
Year Tonnage
1906-07.... ...... 485,805
1907-08........... 511,661
1908-09.......... 532,792
1909-10...... .... 755,488
1910-11........... 820,277
1911-12...... .... 972,340
1912-13........ 680,259
1913-14..... ..... 847,716
1914-15........... 881,136
1915-16......... 778,137
1916-17........... 974,608
1917-18...........1,155,055
1918-19........... 945,864
1919-20...... .... 754,349
1920-21........... 762,769
1921-22....... :... 735,319
1922-23...... .... 932,473
1923-24..........1,009,047
1924-25..........1,015,742
1925-26...........1,119,561
1926-27...........1,181,538
1927-28...........1,226,882
1928-29...........1,370,120
1929-30...........1,434,966
1930-31...........1,122,302
1931-32...........1,093,307
1932-33...........1,057,533
1933-34...........1,235,172
1934-35...........1,298,743
1935-36...........1,210,790Total
Year Tonnage
1936-37...........1,443,552
1937-38...........1,542,833
1938-39..........1,697,189
1939-40...... ..1,705,552
1940-41..........1,814,092
1941-42.........2,268,539
1942-43...........3,328,005
1943-44...........3,314,368
1944-45...........3,178,266
1945-46...........3,243,124
1946-47..... .....3,792,782
1947-48...........3,078,640
1948-49...........3,161,690
1949-50........3,236,330
1950-51..........3,853,596
1951-52.. . .....4,405,676
1952-53...........4,117,344
1953-54........3,237,832
1954-55..........4,080,406
1955-56.. .....4,053,139
1956-57........4,410,209
1957-58........3,934,585
1958-59...........4,533,652
1959-60...........5,081,366
1960-61..........5,048,819
1961-62.... .....5,401,740
1962-63..........5,751,892
1963-64.........5,957,857
1964-65..... .....5,083,144
1965-66.. . .....5,223,978MEAT ANIMAL MARKETING AND INCOME
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
(All figures in thousands; add 000)
AI IValue of Home
Type of Animal Pounds Marketed Cash Receipts . Consumption Gross Income
1964 1965 1964 1965 I 1964 1965 1964 1965
Cattle and calves.................. 3,862,910 3,834,385 $603,207 $694,069 $7,576 $7,9391 $610,783 $702,008
Hogs .............................. 264,004 201,778 39,272 40,060 4,079 5,292[ 43,351 45,352
Sheep and lambs.................. 182,966 143,319 24,162 23,159 161 1971 24,323 23,356
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