ALBANY — The 2022 value of floriculture sales in New York is up 35% from the 2021 valuation according to Charles Walker, state statistician of the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), New York Field Office. The total crop for all growers with $10,000 or more in sales is estimated at $244 million for 2022, compared with $181 million for 2021.
Number of Producers: The number of producers for 2022, at 596, is down slightly from the 2021 count of 600.
Area Used for Production: Total covered area for floriculture crop production was 25.1 million square feet in 2022, up 29% from the 2021 area of 19.5 million square feet.
The 2022 Commercial Floriculture Survey data will be available only in NASS’s Quick Stats database at https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Floriculture/index.php
This report and all other NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov.
–Northeastern Regional Field Office
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