Tennessee ranked 32nd among the 50 states in 2001 with farm receipts of over $2.1 billion. There were 90,000 farms in 2002.
From the antebellum period to the 1950s, cotton was the leading crop, followed by corn and tobacco. But during the early 1960s, soybeans surpassed cotton as the principal source of income. In 2002, 34.7 million bushels of soybeans, valued at $197.9 million, were harvested. Tobacco production in 2002 was 72.5 million lb. The main types of tobacco are burley, a fine leaf used primarily for cigarettes, and eastern and western dark-fired, which are used primarily for cigars, pipe tobacco, and snuff. The corn harvest in 2002 was about 66.3 million bushels, valued at $169 million. In 2002, cotton production was 813,000 bales, valued at $159.9 million.