Thursday, February 27, 2014

Agriculture in USA



Major agricultural products


Satellite image of circular crop fields characteristic ofcenter pivot irrigation in Kansas (June 2001). Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by late June. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year.
The top twenty agricultural products of the United States by value as reported by the FAO in 2003 (ranked in order of value with volume in metric tons):[5][verification needed]
1.Corn256,900,000
2.Cattle meat11,736,000
3.Cow's milk, whole, fresh78,155,000
4.Chicken meat15,006,000
5.Soybeans65,800,000
6.Pig meat8,574,000
7.Wheat63,590,000
8.Cotton lint3,968,000
9.Hen eggs5,141,000
10.Turkey meat2,584,000
11.Tomatoes12,275,000
12.Potatoes20,820,000
13.Grapes6,126,000
14.Oranges10,473,000
15.Rice, paddy9,034,000
16.Apples4,242,000
17.Sorghum10,446,000
18.Lettuce4,490,000
19.Cottonseed6,073,000
20.Sugar beets27,760,000
The only other crops to ever appear in the top 20 in the last 40 years were commonly tobaccobarley, and oats, and rarely, peanutsalmonds, and sunflower seeds (in all, only 26 of the 188 crops the FAO tracks worldwide).Alfalfa and hay would both be in the top ten in 2003 if they were tracked by FAO.