Shipments down 8 pct. during year.

During 1992, factory shipments of farm machinery and equipment, including parts and attachments produced by original equipment manufacturers, totaled $7,079.9 million, a decrease of 8.8 percent from 1991 shipments of $7,705.6 million. Shipments of planting, seeding, and fertilizing machinery and parts totaled $633.3 million, an 11 percent increase over the 1991 total of $601 million.

Harrow, rollers, pulverizers and stalk cutters shipments were valued at $307.7 million, a 4.9 percent decrease from the 1991 value of $322.7. TABULAR DATA OMITTED TABULAR DATA OMITTED TABULAR DATA OMITTED Shipments of plows and listers decreased 9.5 percent from $119.6 million in 1991 to $109.2 million in 1992. The value of shipments for harvesting machinery decreased 17.5 percent from $2,158 in 1991 to $1,837.1 in 1992.

Haying machinery decreased from 19.3 percent from $659.1 million in 1991 to $552.5 million in 1992.

Shipments of farm dairy machines, sprayers and dusters, and farm blowers showed no significant change at $451.4 million in 1992.

The value of shipments for commercial turf and ground equipment, including parts, was $742.2 million in 1992, a 2.4 percent increase over the $724.8 million reported for 1991. The 1992 total included commercial turf and grounds mowing equipment, $571.1 million, relatively unchanged from 1992; and other commercial turf and grounds care equipment at $171.1 million, an increase of 8 percent from 1991 figure of $158.4 million.

The value of shipments of consumer lawn, garden, and snow equipment, including parts, was $4,135.9 million in 1992, a 4 percent increase over the $3,972.9 million in 1991. The 1992 value of customer nonriding lawn, garden and snow equipment and parts increased 6 percent to 1,887.4 million from $1,780.4 million in 1991. The value of consumer riding lawn, garden, and snow equipment and parts increased 3.3 percent from $1,618.4 million in 1991 to $1,671.3 million in 1992.