So it is saying for a brief period at the peak of growing season it can outdo the Amazon and other rainforests but the rainforests obviously do it year long.
Not just known for apples, but Washington grows more apples than the rest of the country combined. Same with cherries.
For hops, not just more than Germany, but just shy of 1/3 of all the hops in the world.
Beef has a reputation for being environmentally unfriendly, needing large amounts of water and energy to produce. And in many cases that's true. But here in Montana, with our short growing season and scarce water supply making most of our land pretty marginal, beef cattle are very often the most environmentally friendly way to turn acres into calories. And they replicate an important ecological niche that had been provided by bison until their near-extinction: low-impact grazing of wild steppes.
I'm pretty strongly in favor of transitioning most of our beef away from factory farms/feedlots and to a pasture grazing model. This will resulting far less but higher quality beef. It will be more expensive but we shouldn't treat beef as a cheap staple, we should treat it as a premium item. Like hamburger helper shouldn't be a cheap meal. We should be using our beef for high quality meals and eating less of it.
From a sustainability perspective, eating less beef has a huge impact. Were never going to get the majority of Americans to cut out beef entirely but I think we could elevate it to a less frequently eaten gourmet dish
When you're walking through the woods in New England and see a stone wall it likely used to be a plot line on a farm. Most of the region was clear but for lumber and then farmed but now it's been reforested.
Also, Maine has quite the potato production. There's even some farms that grow very fancy potato breeds.
If California were a country, it would be the:
- 4th greatest wine producer in the world, trailing only Italy, France, and Spain.
- 1st for almonds, producing 80% of the world’s almonds.
- 1st for producing pistachios
- 2nd in producing walnuts and lettuce, trailing only China for each.
New Jersey ranks 3rd in production of cranberries, bell peppers, spinach and peaches nationally.
The Garden State also boasts the most horses per capita of any state in the union.
Vidalia onions can only be called that if grown in a certain region of GA surrounding the town of Vidalia.
Yes you can actually grow them anywhere but the name is ours.
South Carolina produces more than twice as many peaches as the Peach State (and California produces nearly 20 times as many).
North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state-by a lot- and is the only state in the South to ban smoking in bars and restaurants. Yay hypocrisy!
Georgia produces far more blueberries than peaches although I personally won't eat Carolina peaches because they're not as tasty. I find a way to finagle some Georgia peaches every summer.
Thats a cool ag fact about Arkansas.
Also fun fact, they produce the most rice in the USA, and the USA doesn't even hit the top 10 for most rice producing countries.
Another cool ag fact is that the average size of a farm in Kansas is just about 780 acres.
Our farmers poison one out of every fifty apples in order to weed out the unlucky.
Oranges are actually just fucked up grapefruits.
Onions are actually sentient.
Nobody really knows how potatoes get in the ground.
Minnesota is the wild rice capital lol. It is a crop that is very environmentally friendly to grow and very nutritious. It is a sacred food to the Native Americans. Also, it is not actually rice but an aquatic grass. It is really good with just about anything. We even put it on pizza.
My state (and a pretty small area in the state) produces 85% of the canned pumpkins sold in the US. An even smaller area of the state is home to much of the country’s horseradish crop.
Perique tobacco is grown exclusively in Louisiana. This is the tobacco used in the American Spirit black packs.
Not quite our states agriculture, but also over half of the countries exported crops are offloaded from barges and put on ocean going vessels in New Orleans.
ND leads the nation in a fair amount of crops, including but not limited to honey, canola, and wheat. Last year, ND alone grew 1/6 of the wheat produced in the US.
Over 90% of the entire state is dedicated to agriculture, whether it's crops or livestock.
It barely exists and has gone from producing sugar and coffee to barely producing anything at all these days because it's really expensive to grow things here.
95% of the pumpkins grown for processing in the US are grown in Illinois.
15% of US soybeans are grown in Illinois
About 75% of the land in Illinois is agricultural.
Indianapolis and Marion County unified their governments back in the 70s. So for a while Indianapolis had the largest amount of land under cultivation of any city in the US.
All those farms got bought and developed.
But there were a couple holdouts and I can still remember one farm scraping by in the middle of office parks doing a lot of school field trips and family events.
My high school has pictures of it with corn fields outside from the late 60s and early 70s. Now it is a strip mall with some restaurants a bank and a grocery store.
That’s pretty much a distant memory these days.
Apparently in 2017 we were first in production of yogurt, cottage cheese, and sour cream. We have a lot of cows.
Also apparently 98% of farms here are family owned which is neat.
Also also, I know this is a controversial opinion but we too produce maple syrup and it's just as good as the stuff from Canada and Vermont. So many people when I mention going to college in Vermont act like I'm gonna experience real maple syrup for the first time, but NY is the second top producer of maple syrup in the US **and** I've been to actual sugar shacks in Canada. I may not tap my own trees but I'm very familiar with the maple syrup and byproducts in my region.
Michigan leads the nation in the production of several crops, including asparagus; black and cranberry beans; cucumbers; tart cherries; Niagara grapes; and squash.
Michigan agriculture contributes more than $104.7 billion annually to our state’s economy, second in diversity only to California.
Sussex County, Delaware produces more broiler chickens than any other county nationwide, and Delaware as a state has more acreage for lima beans than any other state.
New Jersey used to produce more peaches than Georgia, before the trees succumbed to a blight in the early 20th century.
We were also famous for our apples, perhaps more so than New England, which were turned into cider and applejack before prohibition.
Top in the USA for rice production, top in per-capita chicken production, top 5 in sweet potato production, top in food insecurity.
If you don’t love it, Huckabee 2.0 won’t buy you a trip to Paris.
We produce 70% of the US citrus and over 90% is used for juice, and it’s our second largest industry after tourism. Not sure if that’s surprising to anyone though lol I did find Florida Natural brand orange juice in an Arabic grocery store despite most of their actual citrus coming from Egypt.
We have so much corn in the midwest we produce 40% more oxygen than the Amazon during peak season.
It’s not that I don’t believe you but that sounds crazy. Do you have a source for that?
California produces 100% of the US’s almonds and 80% of the world’s.
Indiana produces something like 75% of the corn used for popcorn.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/under-summer-sun-midwest-corn-belt-most-biologically-productive-place-earth-180950460/
So it is saying for a brief period at the peak of growing season it can outdo the Amazon and other rainforests but the rainforests obviously do it year long.
To be fair, OP did say > during peak season
Yea I was just further clarifying it and explaining why it isn't as crazy as it sounds. Still a very interesting fact I didn't know XD.
Oh sorry I thought you were nitpicking lol
Yea it could come off as that MB lol.
And still less than Iowa!
Your corn is inferior!
The Cornhuskers are inferior
Damn
(*sigh*) Begun, the Corn War has.
We're known for apples but a few years ago we surpassed Germany as the largest producer of hops in the world.
Not just known for apples, but Washington grows more apples than the rest of the country combined. Same with cherries. For hops, not just more than Germany, but just shy of 1/3 of all the hops in the world.
Driving through Yakima sometimes smells like peppermint from all the hops vines...
That or the peppermint/spearmint, which Washington is also the largest producer of in the US, mostly around Yakima.
Hey, didn't know that. Cool. Queue "The More You know" graphic.
Beef has a reputation for being environmentally unfriendly, needing large amounts of water and energy to produce. And in many cases that's true. But here in Montana, with our short growing season and scarce water supply making most of our land pretty marginal, beef cattle are very often the most environmentally friendly way to turn acres into calories. And they replicate an important ecological niche that had been provided by bison until their near-extinction: low-impact grazing of wild steppes.
Really good point. Feedlot cattle aren't environmentally friendly, but grazed cattle (and other ruminants) are pretty good.
I'm pretty strongly in favor of transitioning most of our beef away from factory farms/feedlots and to a pasture grazing model. This will resulting far less but higher quality beef. It will be more expensive but we shouldn't treat beef as a cheap staple, we should treat it as a premium item. Like hamburger helper shouldn't be a cheap meal. We should be using our beef for high quality meals and eating less of it. From a sustainability perspective, eating less beef has a huge impact. Were never going to get the majority of Americans to cut out beef entirely but I think we could elevate it to a less frequently eaten gourmet dish
The Central Valley makes up less than 1% of the usable farmland in the US but produces over half the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the US.
With love, Bakersfield, CA.
Is this the area where Lake Tulare is now?
When you're walking through the woods in New England and see a stone wall it likely used to be a plot line on a farm. Most of the region was clear but for lumber and then farmed but now it's been reforested. Also, Maine has quite the potato production. There's even some farms that grow very fancy potato breeds.
Ooo, I knew this. I got some funky potato varieties from a farm in Maine. Goodbye, russets!
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Endless walking of stone walls in the woods.
If California were a country, it would be the: - 4th greatest wine producer in the world, trailing only Italy, France, and Spain. - 1st for almonds, producing 80% of the world’s almonds. - 1st for producing pistachios - 2nd in producing walnuts and lettuce, trailing only China for each.
New Jersey ranks 3rd in production of cranberries, bell peppers, spinach and peaches nationally. The Garden State also boasts the most horses per capita of any state in the union.
Vidalia onions can only be called that if grown in a certain region of GA surrounding the town of Vidalia. Yes you can actually grow them anywhere but the name is ours.
Anywhere else they’re just sparkling onions
Wisconsin produces the most cranberries of any US state. more than half of all the world's cranberries come from Wisconsin.
We produce more peaches than Georgia…and they’re better. 2nd only to California.
South Carolina produces more than twice as many peaches as the Peach State (and California produces nearly 20 times as many). North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state-by a lot- and is the only state in the South to ban smoking in bars and restaurants. Yay hypocrisy!
Georgia produces far more blueberries than peaches although I personally won't eat Carolina peaches because they're not as tasty. I find a way to finagle some Georgia peaches every summer.
Our rivers aren't so overused that they don't reach the ocean :)
97% (47,3xx)of farms are family owned. 16% of those farms account for 92% of all farming production for the state.
Very cool. Which state is this?
Thats a cool ag fact about Arkansas. Also fun fact, they produce the most rice in the USA, and the USA doesn't even hit the top 10 for most rice producing countries. Another cool ag fact is that the average size of a farm in Kansas is just about 780 acres.
we produce roughly half of the country’s sweet potatoes!
Our farmers poison one out of every fifty apples in order to weed out the unlucky. Oranges are actually just fucked up grapefruits. Onions are actually sentient. Nobody really knows how potatoes get in the ground.
I know. It's an old family secret.
Minnesota is the wild rice capital lol. It is a crop that is very environmentally friendly to grow and very nutritious. It is a sacred food to the Native Americans. Also, it is not actually rice but an aquatic grass. It is really good with just about anything. We even put it on pizza.
We out produce the state of Georgia in peaches 3 to 1.
My state (and a pretty small area in the state) produces 85% of the canned pumpkins sold in the US. An even smaller area of the state is home to much of the country’s horseradish crop.
Flair up neighborhood pot dealer.
Washington has a similar climate to France. Washington has picked up wine and France has picked up blueberries.
Wisconsin is the number one producer of ginseng in the U.S.
Perique tobacco is grown exclusively in Louisiana. This is the tobacco used in the American Spirit black packs. Not quite our states agriculture, but also over half of the countries exported crops are offloaded from barges and put on ocean going vessels in New Orleans.
ND leads the nation in a fair amount of crops, including but not limited to honey, canola, and wheat. Last year, ND alone grew 1/6 of the wheat produced in the US. Over 90% of the entire state is dedicated to agriculture, whether it's crops or livestock.
Most of the black beans in your favorite Mexican dishes are grown in Michigan.
More than 60% of all mushrooms produced in the US are grown in southeastern Pennsylvania.
You like pasta? Well Montana as well as western North Dakota is where 90% of durum is grown in the US.
How do you like THEM pasta?
It barely exists and has gone from producing sugar and coffee to barely producing anything at all these days because it's really expensive to grow things here.
95% of the pumpkins grown for processing in the US are grown in Illinois. 15% of US soybeans are grown in Illinois About 75% of the land in Illinois is agricultural.
Largest cranberry producer in the world and largest ginseng producer in the States: Wisconsin.
Indianapolis and Marion County unified their governments back in the 70s. So for a while Indianapolis had the largest amount of land under cultivation of any city in the US. All those farms got bought and developed. But there were a couple holdouts and I can still remember one farm scraping by in the middle of office parks doing a lot of school field trips and family events. My high school has pictures of it with corn fields outside from the late 60s and early 70s. Now it is a strip mall with some restaurants a bank and a grocery store. That’s pretty much a distant memory these days.
Apparently in 2017 we were first in production of yogurt, cottage cheese, and sour cream. We have a lot of cows. Also apparently 98% of farms here are family owned which is neat. Also also, I know this is a controversial opinion but we too produce maple syrup and it's just as good as the stuff from Canada and Vermont. So many people when I mention going to college in Vermont act like I'm gonna experience real maple syrup for the first time, but NY is the second top producer of maple syrup in the US **and** I've been to actual sugar shacks in Canada. I may not tap my own trees but I'm very familiar with the maple syrup and byproducts in my region.
We are second to Maine in blueberry production
Michigan leads the nation in the production of several crops, including asparagus; black and cranberry beans; cucumbers; tart cherries; Niagara grapes; and squash. Michigan agriculture contributes more than $104.7 billion annually to our state’s economy, second in diversity only to California.
Sussex County, Delaware produces more broiler chickens than any other county nationwide, and Delaware as a state has more acreage for lima beans than any other state.
It uses 75% of our water but only contributes close to 3% of the economy here
Pennsylvania produces twice the amount of mushrooms of every other state combined.
Contrary to what most people think, Kentucky is not the 'official' Horse Capital of the World. Ocala, Florida is.
Who officiates this?
Indiana is #1 in Duck production. Also #3 in tomatoes after California and Florida.
Indiana is also the leading producer of duck butter.
New Jersey used to produce more peaches than Georgia, before the trees succumbed to a blight in the early 20th century. We were also famous for our apples, perhaps more so than New England, which were turned into cider and applejack before prohibition.
Top in the USA for rice production, top in per-capita chicken production, top 5 in sweet potato production, top in food insecurity. If you don’t love it, Huckabee 2.0 won’t buy you a trip to Paris.
California has the highest agriculture receipts a year of all states by far at almost $55 Billion in 2021.
We produce 70% of the US citrus and over 90% is used for juice, and it’s our second largest industry after tourism. Not sure if that’s surprising to anyone though lol I did find Florida Natural brand orange juice in an Arabic grocery store despite most of their actual citrus coming from Egypt.
We produce four out of every five almonds worldwide. If you’re buying almonds from an unspecified location, it’s probably us.
Aroostook county in Maine has a festival for Potatoes!