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Nursery and Greenhouse products are the top crops in Connecticut accounting for 45% of farm

receipts.

• Top crop items include forage (hay, haylage, grass silage and greencrop), corn for silage, and

vegetables.

• A listing of farm-raised livestock in the order of importance to the Connecticut economy is dairy

cows, chickens, horses, beef, sheep, dairy and meat goats, as well as hogs.

• More than 70,000 acres of shellfish farms are now under cultivation in Connecticut's coastal

waters accounting for $27 million plus in farm-gate sales annually.

• Niche markets exist for camilds - alpacas and llamas, broilers, buffalo, turkeys and farm-produced

pheasants.

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