CENSUS RADIO BROADCAST SERVICE

     Edition #153--For Air Beginning Week of March 27, 1995

"Just a Minute," Runs :60

CAGLE:  "Just a Minute," a look at American agriculture with 
Joe Miller.  Joe, we know California leads the nation in sales of
agricultural products, but by how much?

MILLER:  California is by far and away the first place producer 
of agricultural products in our country--they sell more than 
10 percent of all agricultural products produced nationally.  Texas
is second, and it leads in the number of farms; Iowa is third in
dollar value of farm sales, but is first in the production of corn;
Kansas is fourth, but is first in the production of fat cattle; and
Nebraska is fifth in farm sales, but is first in the production of
irrigated corn.  All this information comes from the Census
Bureau's 1992 ranking of states and counties, which ranks
commodities in 90 important agricultural categories.

CAGLE:  "Just a Minute" is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.