Florida, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania tied for fourth with an inventory of 170,000 head. Ohio ranked seventh with 160,000 head, followed by Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, and Washington with 155,000 head. An additional fifteen States had equine inventories of 100,000 head or more.

The January 1, 1998, total equine inventory was 5.25 million head. Equine ocated on farms totaled 3.20 million head. Equine located on non-farm places were 2.05 million head or 39.1 percent of the total.

- Equine sold totaled 558,000 head in 1998, an increase of 3.3 percent - from the 540,000 head sold in 1997. Texas had the most equine sold in 1998 at 60,000 head followed by Kentucky with 28,000 head, Michigan with 21,000 head, and Florida, Oklahoma, and Tennessee each with 18,000 head.

- Value of sales from equine sold in 1998 was $1.75 billion, up 6.9 percent from $1.64 billion in 1997. The top ten States were Kentucky, Florida, Texas, California, Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) All NASS reports are available free of charge on the worldwide Internet.

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