* Source: 1997 Census of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Commerce

The data shown represents totals for places or establishments which qualify as farms for U.S. Department of Commerce census purposes, which defines a farm as any place from which $1,000 or more of agriculture products are sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year.

** Total land area in Skagit County is approximately 1,110,100 acres.

*** 2002 Census of Ag data are not comparable to Census of Ag data from prior years. For the first time in 2002 the data was adjusted to account for farmers missed or misclassified during the census in prior years. This caused an apparent increase in the number of farms, farmers and land in farms in the 2002 census. For definitions and explanations of data gathering, go to www.nass.usda.gov/census.