Top 10 farm commodities in Idaho
The top commodities produced in Idaho.
Earlier this week we told you that the cattle and calves sector of overall commodities here in Idaho with cattle prices near record highs became the top agricultural commodity. But that's not all that has been ranked as it relates to Idaho's top 10 farm commodities.
Wheat came in as Idaho’s No. 4 agricultural commodity in 2025 with $518 million in total cash receipts, down 15 percent from $610 million in 2024, and sugar beets recorded a total of $460 million in farm cash receipts, a 2 percent decrease from $470 million.
Hay ranked as Idaho’s No. 6 agricultural commodity in 2025 with $358 million in cash receipts, down 9 percent from $392 million in 2024, barley was No. 7 ($288 million, down 24 percent from $379 million), and chicken eggs ranked No. 8 ($192 million, up 54 percent from $125 million).
Rounding out the top 10 were onions ($176 million, down 27 percent from $239 million) and corn ($131 million, down 4 percent from $137 million).
Idaho also produces a decent amount of fruit, but USDA didn’t estimate that industry’s cash receipt total because of insufficient data to forecast cash receipts for that commodity. The last time USDA estimated cash receipt totals for fruit in Idaho was in 2017, when the department put the total at $14.78 million, which included $8.1 million for apples and $6.6 million for peaches.
The Sept. 3 USDA report showed that Idaho’s livestock industry, which includes eggs, hogs, honey, wool and trout, brought in $8.12 billion in farm cash receipts in 2025, an 8 percent increase over $7.52 billion in 2024.
The state’s crop sector, however, went the other way. USDA estimates total cash receipts for Idaho’s crop sector at $3.83 billion in 2025, down 10 percent from $4.26 billion in 2024.
The USDA data shows Idaho farmers and ranchers brought in a total of $11.95 billion in farm cash receipts in 2025, up 1.5 percent from $11.77 billion in 2024. That is gross revenue and does not show net farm income, which is what the agricultural producer actually takes home after expenses.
USDA shows intermediate product expenses for Idaho farmers and ranchers totaled $6.9 billion in 2025. This includes costs such as feed, seed and livestock purchases, as well as pesticides, electricity, fertilizer, fuel, marketing, storage and transportation, repair and maintenance and irrigation.
