With a farm income of $1.82 billion in 2001—61% from crops—Louisiana ranked 33rd among the 50 states. Nearly every crop grown in North America can be raised somewhere in Louisiana. In the south are strawberries, oranges, sweet potatoes, and truck crops; in the southeast, sugarcane; and in the southwest, rice and soybeans. Soybeans—which were introduced into Louisiana after World War I—are also raised in the cotton-growing area of the northeast and in a diagonal belt running east-northwest along the Red River. Oats, alfalfa, corn, potatoes, and peaches are among the other crops grown in the north.
As of 2002, there were an estimated 29,000 farms covering 8.1 million acres (3.3 million hectares) with an average farm size of 290 acres (117 hectares). Louisiana ranked 2nd in the US in sugar cane production. Cash receipts for the sugar crop in 2001 amounted to $368,900,000 for 14,355,000 tons. Louisiana ranked 3rd in the value of its rice production in 2002, $114,660,000 for 29,400,000 hundredweight (a unit of measure equal to 100 lb); and 7th for upland cotton in 2002, $147,960,000 for 750,000 bales.