Floriculture



Sales represent both retail and wholesale quantities sold in the calendar year shown. Flowers, plants, or materials purchased from others for immediate resale are excluded. Potted flowering plants and foliage plants purchased, but held less than four weeks are excluded. All data for foliage and potted flowering plants represent only those grown for indoor or patio use. Value data for cut flower, total foliage for indoor or patio use, and potted flowering crops are on a "gross wholesale" basis, before deductions for sales commissions or transportation costs. Value of sales at wholesale is an equivalent value calculated by applying the average wholesale price to total units sold.

 

The 2003 wholesale value of all sales in Missouri for commercial growers with $10,000 or more of gross sales for the selected floriculture crops surveyed totaled $44.6 million, down almost 12 percent from 2002. Operations with $100,000 or more in gross sales reported sales of potted flowering plants at $9.9 million, which were also down almost 12 percent from the previous year’s total. Sales of bedding and garden plants, at $24.2 million, were down 9 percent from 2002.

 

 

Missouri

Item

1999

2000

2001 1/

2002 1/

2003

All growers with gross sales over $10,000

 

 

   Number of growers

201

206

209

262

236

   Total greenhouse cover (1,000 sq. ft.)

6,507

6,563

6,712

6,819

6,283

   Expanded wholesale value (1,000 dollars)

41,604

46,426

47,404

50,597

44,606

Wholesale value of all sales of Commercial growers with gross sales over $100,000

 

-thousand dollars-

Total potted flowering plants

11,711

13,614

10,985

11,178

9,940

  Chrysanthemums

2,332

2,294

1,783

1,834

1,745

  Azaleas

775

790

336

371

290

  Easter Lilies

684

750

741

618

2/

  Poinsettias

3,570

4,270

3,238

3,237

2,892

  Potted Roses

5/

1,310

1,055

2/

2/

  Other potted flowering plants

3,639

3,200

3,832

1,884

1,810

Total foliar 3/

2,192

3,783

3,819

3,384

3,421

Total bedding/garden plants 4/

20,085

21,232

25,071

26,665

24,217

  Herbaceous Perennials

5/

3,133

7,870

8,192

4,154

     Potted hardy/garden Chrysanthemums

1,452

1,868

2,192

2,074

2,061

     Potted Hosta

5/

182

242

376

341

     Other Potted Herbaceous Perennials

5/

1,083

5,436

5,742

1,752

  Begonias (flats)

5/

190

275

559

635

  Geraniums, from seed and cuttings (flats)

268

275

258

214

397

  Bedding Impatiens, including New Guinea (flats)

1,519

1,533

1,646

1,539

1,587

  Marigolds (flats)

5/

126

146

452

381

  Pansy/Viola (flats)

5/

175

347

348

588

  Bedding Petunias (flats)

1,005

1,150

1,014

1,146

1,151

  Other flowering and foliar type (flats)

5,874

5,100

4,803

5,897

5,676

  Vegetable type (flats)

1,250

1,183

1,176

1,039

1,208

  Potted Geraniums (cuttings)

1,102

1,327

1,332

1,277

1,326

  Potted Geraniums (seed)

252

342

297

360

251

  Potted Impatiens, including New Guinea

342

415

392

474

337

  Other potted flowering and foliar type

4,275

3,465

2,613

1,938

3,274

  Potted vegetable type

56

62

65

58

70

  Geranium hanging baskets, from seed and cuttings

386

392

390

419

366

  Impatiens hanging baskets

129

143

133

186

145

  New Guinea Impatiens hanging baskets

590

590

568

599

591

  Petunia hanging baskets

172

206

214

254

294

  Other Flowering hanging baskets

1,797

1,425

1,528

1,379

1,395

Grand Total wholesale value of reported crops

34,418

38,629

39,875

41,227

37,578

1/ Data Revised.

2/ Included in other potted flowering plants.

3/ Net Value of sales prior to 2000; Gross value in 2000.

4/ Includes only annual bedding plants until 2000 when herbaceous perennials were added.

5/ Data series began in 2000; not available in previous years.

 

 

 

 

 

         



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