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Spencer Yost
yostsw at atis.net
Tue Feb 15 11:32:10 PST 2005
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On 2/15/2005 at 10:59 AM Grant Brians wrote:
>Walt mentions a good point. California agriculture is diverse, diverse,
>diverse. Close to 100% of the world almond crop (approaching 5 billion
>pounds in the last four years.) More milk than any other state (and more
But not tobacco, sweet potatoes or turkeys!
Here is the link for NC statistics:
http://www.ncagr.com/stats/nc_rank/nc_rank.htm
Not too shabby for a eastern fairly urban state, but definitely nothing
like CA. (-; Interstingly, we are 15th in the number of farms, which I
think is very high when one considers how many states east of us are rural
farming states and the fact NC has lost 50% of its farms in just the last
30 years alone - mnainly tobacco farms. I'l bet we were in the top ten
just 30 years ago.
Spencer Yost
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