Missouri had 107,000 farms (2nd in the US) covering 29.8 million acres (12.1 million hectares) in 2002. About 12,449,000 acres (5,038,000 hectares) were actually harvested in 1997. Missouri's agricultural income reached $4.8 billion in 2001, 15th among the 50 states.
In 2002, Missouri was 4th among the states in grain sorghum production and 6th in soybean and rice production. Soybean production is concentrated mainly in the northern counties and in the extreme southeast, with Mississippi County a leading producer. Stoddard County is a major source for corn and wheat production, as is New Madrid for grain sorghum.
The cash value of all crops totaled $2.1 billion in 2001, including $918 million from soybeans, $501 million from hay, $695 million from corn, $108 million from wheat, $38 million from grain sorghum, and $118.6 million from cotton. The value of rice production in 2002 was $39 million. Farmers harvested 170 million bushels of soybeans, 284 million bushels of corn, 34.2 million bushels of wheat, 15.7 million bushels of grain sorghum, 610,000 bales of cotton, and 7.8 million tons of hay in 2002. That year, 11.0 million hundredweight (494.9 million kg) of rice was harvested. Tobacco, oats, rye, apples, peaches, grapes, watermelons, and various seed crops are also grown in commercial quantities.