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.	Corn	256,900,000
2.	Cattle meat	11,736,000
3.	Cow's milk, whole, fresh	78,155,000
4.	Chicken meat	15,006,000
5.	Soybeans	65,800,000
6.	Pig meat	8,574,000
7.	Wheat	63,590,000
8.	Cotton lint	3,968,000
9.	Hen eggs	5,141,000
10.	Turkey meat	2,584,000
11.	Tomatoes	12,275,000
12.	Potatoes	20,820,000
13.	Grapes	6,126,000
14.	Oranges	10,473,000
15.	Rice, paddy	9,034,000
16.	Apples	4,242,000
17.	Sorghum	10,446,000
18.	Lettuce	4,490,000
19.	Cottonseed	6,073,000
20.	Sugar beets	27,760,000

The only other crops to ever appear in the top 20 in the last 40 years were commonly tobacco, barley, and oats, and rarely, peanuts, almonds, 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.