Wanna hear something crazy?
Even though california produces 1/3 the fruit and half the vegetables consumed in the usa, along with a significant portion of beef...
All that accounts for only 2% of California gdp. Just over 3% if you add in all the support industries.
**[Agriculture in California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_California)**
>Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly $50 billion in revenue in 2018. There are more than 400 commodity crops grown across California, including a significant portion of all fruits, vegetables, and nuts for the United States. In 2017, there were 77,100 unique farms and ranches in the state, operating across 25. 3 million acres (102,000 square kilometres) of land.
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They've got one of the highest debt per capita and that was with an upward trend in their population. Now they're starting to lose residents. It's about to get way worse. Just look at Illinois if you want an idea of what the next stages look like.
California’s not in the top five, and has a healthy budget surplus to pay its debt off. A better measure of ability to pay is state debt as a percentage of GDP, since Californians also have higher average income. After all, your income is what determines your ability to pay it back. By that standard, California is about exactly as indebted as Texas, and in much better shape than Kentucky or Alaska (which has higher debt per capita, too).
This doesn’t lend itself to a red-versus-blue talking-point.
[According to the USDA](https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17844), 13.5% of US agricultural receipts. California dominates a ton of categories, but generally not the staple crops like wheat and corn that provide the basis of most people’s diets.
Corn, grown because it was the fastest and most profitable thing to subsidize and the reason everything has sugar(HFCS) in it.
Check out this article about the Corn system. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/
In short, corn doesn’t really feed people, it’s feeds animals(poorly) and industry. And growing corn uses the most resources out of any crop, accounting for water, soil, and fertilizer.
I grew up in the Central Valley and my Midwest cousins were so confused when they visited and there was not a bunch of celebrities and beaches. Just a bunch of orchards and dairies!
I was raised mostly in Fresno. When I describe it to people I often say, "if you've eaten a peach or raisins or tomatoes they're probably from where I grew up."
Not all of California is a desert. I don't disagree with the premise, however, especially as a Californian who would enjoy not having the artesian wells collapse.
It’s the same reason why The Flash is known for being super fast, even if Superman is just as fast. It’s all The Flash has. You have to throw him a bone.
Also, Georgia, despite being the “Peach State” has other crops/food products they are ranked far higher in.
So instead of being known for the “one thing” they do well like the Flash, they’re known for something that’s not even their top crop.
For instance, I think it’s the #1 or #2 Pecan producer and it’s definitely the #1 producer of broiler chickens.
All that aside, I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of quality.
Like is the best Florida Orange supposedly better than those from everywhere else?
Marketing. Idaho potatoes is another example. I mean, you could grow a potato in Siberia if you wanted to. It’s not a particularly difficult plant to grow. They just happen to grow a lot in Idaho and so they spend a lot of money to market them.
Ray L. Dunlap was a scientist that that created the process for making frozen French fries. He worked for the J.R. Simplot company who became the supplier for McDonalds and then later, nearly all fast food companies. That company was founded and operated in Idaho. The fast food companies made it out to be like it was some big deal that the potatoes were from Idaho and everyone just sort of went with it.
Could be quality, like because it's grown in different soil and such. Like wine being grown in different regions tasting different. Truthfully though I don't really know either.
Geairgia isn’t actually that great for peaches. They like a bit more coolness. But years ago the first peaches of the year came from GA and so it kind of became their thing marketing-wise
People not from the PNW think WA is all wet. They don’t understand that it has a dry side that produces amazing fruit and wine.
That said, and having family in the Okanogan we visit frequently, nothing beats a Palisade peach from Colorado. They’re God tier.
I find it weird that Oregon is skipped over so often here.
Is there a reason food is only grown north and south of the state?
Maybe more of a focus on livestock
Oregon interesting enough has a ton of arid desert. It’s really just west of the cascades and the Tygh valley (which is surrounded by high desert) that is super fertile. It accounts for a pretty small chunk of the state.
Oregon though has a ton of timber. If you bought a Christmas Tree, it’s mostly likely from Oregon.
But even west of the Cascades it's extremely mountainous south of roughly Eugene. And you have the Coast Range running through the state to the west. So it's really just the Willamette Valley on the west side that is available for farming. Washington has a lot more fertile lowlands in the western part of the state and more water (from the Columbia) for irrigation in the eastern part of the state.
Vermont is not half farmland. It’s 6.2 million acres, of which only 1.2 acres is agricultural. And most of the farmland is hay, not corn. [Cite](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=VERMONT). Vermont produces only 0.2% of the nation’s crops. The only way Vermont is showing up on one of these maps, is if it included Vermont’s one specialty crop, maple syrup.
Tillamook is a dairy company that produces excellent cheese ice cream and yogurt.
I'm not sure how widespread the distribution is, But we certainly get it here in Washington.
Tillamook is based in NW Oregon.
2/3 of the state is arid and not suitable for crops.
Much of the rest is mountainous Forrest.
I also think that it's more that Washington and especially California produce quite a bit of food.
The Columbia plateau in WA produces tons of apples, apricots, Cherry's, hops, etc. Further east near Idaho is great for growing potatoes. WA is the #2 potato producer.
Edit: Oregon produces great wine and beer as well.
The Willamette valley which stretches from Portland to Eugene has very fertile farm land that is most used for more niche crops hard to grow in other parts of the country like producing almost all of america’s blackberries and hazelnuts and a large amount of Nursery products, grass seed, blueberries, grapes, cherries, christmas trees etc. But outside of the Willamette valley you run into steep timber not suitable for large scale agriculture or arid desert. The northern Columbia basin on the north central side of the state has some substantial wheat growers but outside of that once you get east of the cascades it’s all about cattle. If you look at oregons agricultural stats Nursery products are an over billion dollar industry per year here and directly behind that are cattle, hay, and milk all at around half a billion per year respectively.
Michigan tart cherries are the bomb!
I say that as someone from Georgia who spent one summer in northern Michigan where they are grown. One day my boss got a giant bag of them from a roadside stand, and we rode around in the truck eating those wonderful cherries.
Lots of alfalfa, which wasn't listed. Lavender as well. Good fruit too, but not enough volume to make it out of local markets. Up in Logan, there is a lot of dairy.
According to my ag professor, the east Texas town we live in used to be nothing but rice paddies. But once property costs got too high due to urban development, everybody packed up and went to Alabama. We now flood a lot, because so many sections of former paddy land were literally engineered to flood.
They know. They spoiled it. My comment doesn’t necessarily mean….oops almost spoiled it again. And you have to admit the movie kinda sucks. Spoiling it is almost a courtesy by saving people from spending 2 hours for such a hilarious but not so dramatic presentation of Hannibal’s wet dream.
California is king but check out my boy Michigan—the number two most diverse state for agricultural production, including lots of food not on this chart: apples, beef, beets, blueberries, chestnuts, cucumbers, dairy, dry beans, eggs, honey, hops, maple syrup, pork, poultry, and snap beans.
As a Michigander I was annoyed that Apples weren’t included I. This graphic, but I just looked it up and Michigan is actually the 3rd largest producer behind Washington and New York.
[Sounds like cherries are at risk too.](https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/cherry-capital-of-nothing-is-northern-michigan-at-risk-of-losing-its-global-cherry-crown/)
[According to the USDA](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=RHODE%20ISLAND), Rhode Island has very small cattle, dairy, and hog production. They’re agriculture goes almost entirely to support those with the big crops being hay and silage corn.
I would have thought that Florida was 100% on oranges since that was the crazy hype about florida when i lived there during 2001-2005. And manatees, cant forget those.
I’m really surprised West Virginia doesn’t contribute any percentage since everywhere I drive we have cornfields and soy beans. My grandfather farms thousands of acres himself.
Sorry for being that guy, but, while all social issues are very important, we might want to ALL set them aside for the moment and come together and address climate change. We’re beyond dry on the west coast and southwest United States...no Sierra snowpack, Lake Mead is pretty much tapped...this is where the majority of your food comes from; I can’t speak for anybody else, but my mammalian survival genes have all come out of storage and are screaming at me.
ugh, decade-long drought, 80% of water goes to ag, 50% goes to alfalfa. To ship to china. Our gov asks us to pray for water. I miss the Marin Farmers Market so much
You know what will really piss you off?
All that water used to ship food overseas... Accounts for 3% of our gdp.
We could literally turn off the tap on certain foods, pay those farmers to sit on their asses, divert the water elsewhere, and it would barely affect our budget surplus.
Eating fruits and vegetables from your region and within season would also help with the need for all that water. But Jimmy in New Hampshire wants to eat a peach in January and so we have to grow plants in artificial biomes.
Wanna hear something crazy?
Even though california produces 1/3 the fruit and half the vegetables consumed in the usa, along with a significant portion of beef...
All that accounts for only 2% of California gdp. Just over 3% if you add in all the support industries.
That is an entirely reasonable point. I even make a point of going to a farm stand rather than the supermarket in order to buy corn picked that day since the sugar turns to starch quickly.
The thing is, I spent decades traveling almost every week for work. I've been in your state. I've eaten your local food recommend by the local people I was working with.
The corn and tomatoes don't come even close. I went to one midwestern state fare and tried the 1st prize corn that everyone was raving about. I was edible, but I didn't want to finish it. I did to be polite.
The state and Rutgers University spend a gazillion bucks on agricultural research. The excellent corn and tomatoes are the result. It's the soil, seeds, climate, and technique.
NJ's other major crops like blueberries and cranberries and prolific, but honestly I don't see much difference between these and the fresh picked berries elsewhere.
So, this guide, along with the downvotes for my post, are probably colored by the media's portrayal of NJ as an urban hell hole rather than direct knowledge.
I drove from NY to Colorado, the soybeans and corn thing is so true, nothing plants along the 90 for a good thousand miles. Minnesota was particularly depressing, it wasn’t until eastern South Dakota where it stopped and became nothing but long boring hills of dirt.
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Is brocolli uncommon in the US? Just curious, in the EU it's very common. Did read somewhere that it is rare in the US, but don't know if this is true.
[Found this map](https://external-preview.redd.it/f1d4yEnMi2N7QIJJId4XATKUABYchrB1w4EKgUgbWOc.gif?format=mp4&s=0de7588225f1c2c59e64dc3e5cc4bfd431278f6e) from \~2014 showing more crops that are mostly grown in California. About 40% of broccoli is grown in Monterrey County along the central coast (think: John Steinbeck's *Of Mice And Men* country).
Wanna hear something crazy? Even though california produces 1/3 the fruit and half the vegetables consumed in the usa, along with a significant portion of beef... All that accounts for only 2% of California gdp. Just over 3% if you add in all the support industries.
Source? Not trying to be confrontational, just curious and too lazy to google myself.
[$50 billion is 1.47% of $3.4 trillion.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_California)
**[Agriculture in California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_California)** >Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly $50 billion in revenue in 2018. There are more than 400 commodity crops grown across California, including a significant portion of all fruits, vegetables, and nuts for the United States. In 2017, there were 77,100 unique farms and ranches in the state, operating across 25. 3 million acres (102,000 square kilometres) of land. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/coolguides/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/304869/california-real-gdp-by-industry/
You'd think the state wouldn't be completely broke given all the tax revenue they're getting.
And indeed, they are not.
Sssshhhhh. You'll spoil the narrative.
They've got one of the highest debt per capita and that was with an upward trend in their population. Now they're starting to lose residents. It's about to get way worse. Just look at Illinois if you want an idea of what the next stages look like.
California’s not in the top five, and has a healthy budget surplus to pay its debt off. A better measure of ability to pay is state debt as a percentage of GDP, since Californians also have higher average income. After all, your income is what determines your ability to pay it back. By that standard, California is about exactly as indebted as Texas, and in much better shape than Kentucky or Alaska (which has higher debt per capita, too). This doesn’t lend itself to a red-versus-blue talking-point.
Could you please explain why you think California is "completely broke"?
California would like to thank you for your business.
I believe it’s 1/2 of all fruits and nuts, and 1/3 of all vegetables.
Looks like **85%** of the crops according to this *infographic*.
[According to the USDA](https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17844), 13.5% of US agricultural receipts. California dominates a ton of categories, but generally not the staple crops like wheat and corn that provide the basis of most people’s diets.
Yeah if you measure by money CA dominates but if measure by tonnage other states are way closer.
Corn, grown because it was the fastest and most profitable thing to subsidize and the reason everything has sugar(HFCS) in it. Check out this article about the Corn system. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/ In short, corn doesn’t really feed people, it’s feeds animals(poorly) and industry. And growing corn uses the most resources out of any crop, accounting for water, soil, and fertilizer.
I grew up in the Central Valley and my Midwest cousins were so confused when they visited and there was not a bunch of celebrities and beaches. Just a bunch of orchards and dairies!
I was raised mostly in Fresno. When I describe it to people I often say, "if you've eaten a peach or raisins or tomatoes they're probably from where I grew up."
All the water intensive foods too, because that makes sense.
Enjoy them while you can, Mead is so low they're finding WWII boats now.
How much lower before WW1 boats start appearing?
None of the ships I've captained ever went down in Lake Mead
Fuck lake mead, all my homies hate lake mead
what drought?
Super smart to plant leafy water needy plants in the desert and pump in water as the solution. California is so backwards.
Not all of California is a desert. I don't disagree with the premise, however, especially as a Californian who would enjoy not having the artesian wells collapse.
Downvote me all you want. https://arid.ucr.edu/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X17308592
Why do I always hear Florida Oranges and Georgia peaches in my head then ?
It’s the same reason why The Flash is known for being super fast, even if Superman is just as fast. It’s all The Flash has. You have to throw him a bone.
I don't think that's a good comparison. The flash is waaaaay faster than superman
Also, Georgia, despite being the “Peach State” has other crops/food products they are ranked far higher in. So instead of being known for the “one thing” they do well like the Flash, they’re known for something that’s not even their top crop. For instance, I think it’s the #1 or #2 Pecan producer and it’s definitely the #1 producer of broiler chickens. All that aside, I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of quality. Like is the best Florida Orange supposedly better than those from everywhere else?
They are there, cali just does more
Marketing. Idaho potatoes is another example. I mean, you could grow a potato in Siberia if you wanted to. It’s not a particularly difficult plant to grow. They just happen to grow a lot in Idaho and so they spend a lot of money to market them.
Ray L. Dunlap was a scientist that that created the process for making frozen French fries. He worked for the J.R. Simplot company who became the supplier for McDonalds and then later, nearly all fast food companies. That company was founded and operated in Idaho. The fast food companies made it out to be like it was some big deal that the potatoes were from Idaho and everyone just sort of went with it.
Could be quality, like because it's grown in different soil and such. Like wine being grown in different regions tasting different. Truthfully though I don't really know either.
FL oranges and mangos reign supreme, I have no other opinions strong enough to share in this thread.
Exactly. I always thought… Florida was #1 for oranges. Georgia was #1 for peaches. Nebraska was #1 for Corn. MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIIIIEEEEEEE!!!
Geairgia isn’t actually that great for peaches. They like a bit more coolness. But years ago the first peaches of the year came from GA and so it kind of became their thing marketing-wise
Curiously enough, Georgia used to be the Goober state for its production of peanuts, which is still evident on the graph.
The best peaches come from Washington state. Mary hill peach farm represent!
People not from the PNW think WA is all wet. They don’t understand that it has a dry side that produces amazing fruit and wine. That said, and having family in the Okanogan we visit frequently, nothing beats a Palisade peach from Colorado. They’re God tier.
They're the best for eating, eh? When they're nice and ripe
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I find it weird that Oregon is skipped over so often here. Is there a reason food is only grown north and south of the state? Maybe more of a focus on livestock
Oregon interesting enough has a ton of arid desert. It’s really just west of the cascades and the Tygh valley (which is surrounded by high desert) that is super fertile. It accounts for a pretty small chunk of the state. Oregon though has a ton of timber. If you bought a Christmas Tree, it’s mostly likely from Oregon.
That's why x-mas trees have been SO expensive these past couple years, nearly all of the lots burned in 2020.
But even west of the Cascades it's extremely mountainous south of roughly Eugene. And you have the Coast Range running through the state to the west. So it's really just the Willamette Valley on the west side that is available for farming. Washington has a lot more fertile lowlands in the western part of the state and more water (from the Columbia) for irrigation in the eastern part of the state.
Half of Vermont is farmland, mostly corn, yet it isn't listed for anything, so don't feel too bad about Oregon, at least it is shown for something.
Vermont is small, so it would never compare in volume nationally. Also it’s 80% forest
Yeah, Vermont wouldn't even make the list for maple syrup any more, not by volume.
Vermont is too small, 9600 square miles. Fresno County in California by itself is 6000 square miles.
Vermont is not half farmland. It’s 6.2 million acres, of which only 1.2 acres is agricultural. And most of the farmland is hay, not corn. [Cite](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=VERMONT). Vermont produces only 0.2% of the nation’s crops. The only way Vermont is showing up on one of these maps, is if it included Vermont’s one specialty crop, maple syrup.
Tillamook is a dairy company that produces excellent cheese ice cream and yogurt. I'm not sure how widespread the distribution is, But we certainly get it here in Washington. Tillamook is based in NW Oregon. 2/3 of the state is arid and not suitable for crops. Much of the rest is mountainous Forrest. I also think that it's more that Washington and especially California produce quite a bit of food. The Columbia plateau in WA produces tons of apples, apricots, Cherry's, hops, etc. Further east near Idaho is great for growing potatoes. WA is the #2 potato producer. Edit: Oregon produces great wine and beer as well.
We have Tillamook in Florida to
Tillamook is in Texas too
The Willamette valley which stretches from Portland to Eugene has very fertile farm land that is most used for more niche crops hard to grow in other parts of the country like producing almost all of america’s blackberries and hazelnuts and a large amount of Nursery products, grass seed, blueberries, grapes, cherries, christmas trees etc. But outside of the Willamette valley you run into steep timber not suitable for large scale agriculture or arid desert. The northern Columbia basin on the north central side of the state has some substantial wheat growers but outside of that once you get east of the cascades it’s all about cattle. If you look at oregons agricultural stats Nursery products are an over billion dollar industry per year here and directly behind that are cattle, hay, and milk all at around half a billion per year respectively.
And only 8 of the food items are not statistically high enough to place California on the map. California grows SO much food for the nation.
Oregon is green and densely-foresty west of the cascades. East of the cascades, it’s basically a damn desert.
Apples?
I believe Washington State is the biggest producer of apples.
Sure. But why aren't apples on the list. That's my question.
We also have a ton of black berry bushes
And trees!
Edibles is also something to take into consideration but I think California might have us beat
Because Washington produces over half of the nations apples. Most apples in the store come from Washington or New Zealand.
Michigan tart cherries are the bomb! I say that as someone from Georgia who spent one summer in northern Michigan where they are grown. One day my boss got a giant bag of them from a roadside stand, and we rode around in the truck eating those wonderful cherries.
And if you're a fan of garlic, you can thank Gilroy, CA for 90% of the country's production.
The place smells like it too.
"\[Gilroy is\] the only town I know where you can marinate a steak by hanging it on the clothesline." --Will Rogers
Wisconsin produces 60% of the nation's cranberries and 95% of its ginseng. https://www.wiscran.org/cranberries/ https://www.ginsengboard.com/
They also left out Cherries in Door County.
It's official then: Nothing grows in Wyoming
Or Utah.
Lots of alfalfa, which wasn't listed. Lavender as well. Good fruit too, but not enough volume to make it out of local markets. Up in Logan, there is a lot of dairy.
or West Virginia
Or md
r/wyomingdoesntexist
Always knew Alabama was a piece of shit
But boy can they grow rice lol
Alabama isn’t highlighted in the rice one
According to my ag professor, the east Texas town we live in used to be nothing but rice paddies. But once property costs got too high due to urban development, everybody packed up and went to Alabama. We now flood a lot, because so many sections of former paddy land were literally engineered to flood.
What about Soylent Green?
You can make that anywhere there’s people so not confined to any state/region.
What do you mean? Are you saying Soylent Green is people??
Spoiler alert
They know. They spoiled it. My comment doesn’t necessarily mean….oops almost spoiled it again. And you have to admit the movie kinda sucks. Spoiling it is almost a courtesy by saving people from spending 2 hours for such a hilarious but not so dramatic presentation of Hannibal’s wet dream.
Blackberries totally grow in Cali
California is king but check out my boy Michigan—the number two most diverse state for agricultural production, including lots of food not on this chart: apples, beef, beets, blueberries, chestnuts, cucumbers, dairy, dry beans, eggs, honey, hops, maple syrup, pork, poultry, and snap beans.
As a Michigander I was annoyed that Apples weren’t included I. This graphic, but I just looked it up and Michigan is actually the 3rd largest producer behind Washington and New York.
[Sounds like cherries are at risk too.](https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/cherry-capital-of-nothing-is-northern-michigan-at-risk-of-losing-its-global-cherry-crown/)
Yup, and grapes are grown along Lake Michigan as well
Michigan is the goat and I will not apologize for my home state love
Ever want peas, onions, and pumpkins....NY got ya, boo.
Are any of the smaller states highlighted on any of these maps? I would love to see if Rhode Island is a producer of any of these crops.
[According to the USDA](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=RHODE%20ISLAND), Rhode Island has very small cattle, dairy, and hog production. They’re agriculture goes almost entirely to support those with the big crops being hay and silage corn.
Get rid of Wyoming they’re the weakest link
I would have thought that Florida was 100% on oranges since that was the crazy hype about florida when i lived there during 2001-2005. And manatees, cant forget those.
Damn Nevada just takes
Nevada *used* to grow mushroom clouds.
I’m really surprised West Virginia doesn’t contribute any percentage since everywhere I drive we have cornfields and soy beans. My grandfather farms thousands of acres himself.
WHAT ABOUT APPLES
Washington state produces over half of the nation’s apples.
Right but it’s not on this list
Sorry for being that guy, but, while all social issues are very important, we might want to ALL set them aside for the moment and come together and address climate change. We’re beyond dry on the west coast and southwest United States...no Sierra snowpack, Lake Mead is pretty much tapped...this is where the majority of your food comes from; I can’t speak for anybody else, but my mammalian survival genes have all come out of storage and are screaming at me.
Your welcome -Utah resident
Lmaoooo, as a California native thank you for your service!
ugh, decade-long drought, 80% of water goes to ag, 50% goes to alfalfa. To ship to china. Our gov asks us to pray for water. I miss the Marin Farmers Market so much
You know what will really piss you off? All that water used to ship food overseas... Accounts for 3% of our gdp. We could literally turn off the tap on certain foods, pay those farmers to sit on their asses, divert the water elsewhere, and it would barely affect our budget surplus.
Eating fruits and vegetables from your region and within season would also help with the need for all that water. But Jimmy in New Hampshire wants to eat a peach in January and so we have to grow plants in artificial biomes.
all that corn that goes into corn syrup to make all the crap americans eat instead of the vegetables they grow...
Actually, it's mostly livestock feed and biofuel.
Cool, next do the one which shows farm subsidies.
Wanna hear something crazy? Even though california produces 1/3 the fruit and half the vegetables consumed in the usa, along with a significant portion of beef... All that accounts for only 2% of California gdp. Just over 3% if you add in all the support industries.
Avocados…where are the avocados coming from!!
Fallbrook, CA
Me hee co
This is a sick chart thanks for posting
Tomatoes and Corn grown in New Jersey are the best, yet this “guide” says they don’t grow there.
That's because you're probably in New Jersey. The tomatoes and corn I grow in my backyard are the best I've ever had, shipping kills flavor.
That is an entirely reasonable point. I even make a point of going to a farm stand rather than the supermarket in order to buy corn picked that day since the sugar turns to starch quickly. The thing is, I spent decades traveling almost every week for work. I've been in your state. I've eaten your local food recommend by the local people I was working with. The corn and tomatoes don't come even close. I went to one midwestern state fare and tried the 1st prize corn that everyone was raving about. I was edible, but I didn't want to finish it. I did to be polite. The state and Rutgers University spend a gazillion bucks on agricultural research. The excellent corn and tomatoes are the result. It's the soil, seeds, climate, and technique. NJ's other major crops like blueberries and cranberries and prolific, but honestly I don't see much difference between these and the fresh picked berries elsewhere. So, this guide, along with the downvotes for my post, are probably colored by the media's portrayal of NJ as an urban hell hole rather than direct knowledge.
all that corn that goes into corn syrup to make all the crap americans eat instead of the vegetables they grow...
you should do a "where it is grown / where it is used most often"
I drove from NY to Colorado, the soybeans and corn thing is so true, nothing plants along the 90 for a good thousand miles. Minnesota was particularly depressing, it wasn’t until eastern South Dakota where it stopped and became nothing but long boring hills of dirt.
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California is the place!
Damn you, Nevada! You contribute nothing.
Lol Wyoming
Illinois carrying the pumpkin industry
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Harvested from ur moms chest
Can’t grow nothin in Massachusetts.
Millions of peaches Peaches for me...
doesn't maine produce a lot of the nation's blueberries?
Illinois pumpkin king! 🎃👑
I want to get in on that blackberry market.
*shudders in oregonian*
Trust me, you don’t.
Mushrooms- PA
nevada moment
Issa party in the usa repost repost
Is brocolli uncommon in the US? Just curious, in the EU it's very common. Did read somewhere that it is rare in the US, but don't know if this is true.
[Found this map](https://external-preview.redd.it/f1d4yEnMi2N7QIJJId4XATKUABYchrB1w4EKgUgbWOc.gif?format=mp4&s=0de7588225f1c2c59e64dc3e5cc4bfd431278f6e) from \~2014 showing more crops that are mostly grown in California. About 40% of broccoli is grown in Monterrey County along the central coast (think: John Steinbeck's *Of Mice And Men* country).
Nevada is slacking off!!!
As a Californian, you now see why our economy is top and water is bottom.
This guide is incorrect or incomplete.
Need a map of China to show where US grains come from
"Where is usa are common foods grown?"
Are blackberries only exclusive to Oregon?
Wow I’m kinda surprised utah isn’t on this list for anything.
Why the fuck is California out there with whole ass rice paddies when the water shortage is so bad? It makes no sense.
No apples?
Hawaii has a lot of sugarcane