Cash receipts of Kentucky corn topped $1.2 billion last year according to the September. 1 USDA-ERS report, leading the commodities to earn a record $6.86 billion total. Soybeans, broilers, horse sales and service, and cattle rounded out the top five.
David Knopf of the National Agricultural Statistics Service said the 32 percent jump in cash receipts was due to higher commodity prices and record yields of corn and soybeans last year.