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Show $11.5 million in farm sales in County The market value of agricultural ag-ricultural products sold by the 189 farms in Beaver County amounted to $11.5 million for 1978 or an average av-erage of $61,060 each, up from . $6.6 million in . 1974.! with an accompanying increase in-crease in production costs. 1978 figures were: Crops, $2.8 million; livestock and livestock products, $8.8 mil lion. Expenditures for feed for livestock and poultry for . 1978 were $2.3 million compared com-pared to $1.8 million in 1974; cost of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products nearly doubled with $662,000 compared to $315,000. Farm energy costs of all types totaled $1.2 million. |