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title: 50 Agriculture State Facts
description: Did you know agriculture plays a big part in every state? From the California to the New York island, agriculture is there. Check out these 50 ag facts!
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# 50 Agriculture State Facts
5 Minute Read
Posted by [Karyn Moyer](https://blog.aghires.com/author/karyn-moyer)
Tags: [Ag Fun and Facts](https://blog.aghires.com/tag/ag-fun-and-facts)
Did you know agriculture plays a big part in every state? From the California to the New York island, agriculture is there. Check out these 50 facts about each state.
1. **Alabama’s** top row crop is cotton. Peaches are the leading fruit.
2. **Alaska** harvested 62% of the commercial seafood in 2007.
3. Each year, **Arizona** grows enough cotton to make more than 1 pair of jeans for everyone in the United States.
4. **Arkansas** is the largest producer of rice in the United States, producing about 50% of the nation’s rice.
5. **California** produces over 350 crops, making it the top agriculture state for more than 50 years
6. **Colorado** is home to over 32,000 bee colonies, which produces 1.5 million pounds of honey each year.
7. **Connecticut** has more than 70,000 acres of shellfish farms, which harvest 450,000 bushels of hard clams and 200,000 bushels of oysters each year.
8. **Delaware’s** number one crop is corn, soybeans come in second.
9. **Florida** produces about 95% of commercial orange products.
10. **Georgia** should be called the peanut state since it produces nearly half of the peanuts in the United States.
11. **Hawaii** is ranked 6th for tree nuts. About 27% of the state’s total land is farmland.
12. Not surprising, **Idaho** is ranked first for potato production, but is ranked top 10 for 26 different crops and livestock.
13. **Illinois** produces enough corn annually to fill a train of box cars that stretches more than 7,600 miles.
14. **Indiana** leads in duck production.
15. **Iowa** leads in hog and egg production. About 1/3 of hogs raised in the United States comes from Iowa.
16. **Kansas** produced about 2.4 billion pounds of milk in 2009
17. **Kentucky** produces over 262 million pounds of burley tobacco annually.
18. **Louisiana** is the only source of Tabasco pepper. The state’s fishing industry also produces 25% of all U.S. seafood.
19. **Maine** is the world’s leader in wild blueberries
20. **Maryland’s** farmland takes about 40% of the state.
21. **Massachusetts** has about 150 remaining dairy farms, which is the state’s 5th highest agriculture output.
22. **Michigan** leads in tart cherry production. In 2014 the state produced 66% of the nation’s tart cherries
23. **Minnesota** is the lead producer in turkeys in the United States
24. **Mississippi** produced over a million bushels of cotton in 2017.
25. **Missouri** ranks 2nd in the nation in number of beef cows.
26. **Montana** ranks 4th in honey production.
27. **Nebraska** contains about 9 million laying hen, which produce over 3 billion eggs annually.
28. **Nevada’s** leading agricultural industry is range livestock.
29. **New Hampshire** produces an average of 130, 000 gallons of maple syrup a year from 500,000 taps.
30. **New Jersey** produces over 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables.
31. About 98% of **New Mexico** ranches are family owned, which have been handed down from multiple generations.
32. **New York** ranks 2nd in apples and 3rd in wine and juice grapes.
33. **North Carolina** is ranked first in the nation for flue-cured tobacco and sweet potatoes.
34. **North Dakota** has about 1.7 million head of cattle, 160,000 pigs, and 88,000 sheep.
35. **Ohio** leads in Swiss cheese production in the United States.
36. **Oklahoma** ranks 2nd in beef cows and has about 5 million cattle.
37. **Oregon** ranks second in the nation for peppermint, sweet cherries, and hops production.
38. **Pennsylvania** produces about 65% of the mushrooms in the United States.
39. **Rhode Island’s** top agricultural commodities are greenhouse products, dairy products, sweet corn, aquaculture, and apples.
40. **South Carolina** has the only tea farm in North America
41. **South Dakota** averages about 3 million acres of planted wheat each year. The state produces 3 different types of wheat.
42. **Tennessee** ranks 2nd in hardwood and 3rd in tobacco, with cattle, broilers, soybeans, corn, and greenhouse products being the state’s top agricultural commodities.
43. **Texas** is first in the nation in cattle, cotton, milk, broilers, and greenhouse/nursery products.
44. **Utah** is 2nd in tart cherries and 8th in sweet cherries. The state is also ranked 3rd in apricots.
45. **Vermont** produces about 36% of the United States output of maple syrup.
46. **Virginia** has a the most diverse agriculture production in the United States. This is due to the state’s varying geography and climate.
47. **Washington** is the top apple producer in the United States.
48. **West Virginia** top crop is hay grown for the state’s livestock.
49. **Wisconsin** ranks first in dairy goats in the United States.
50. **Wyoming’s** livestock industry is the largest agricultural component in the state’s economy.
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Sources:
[Agclassroom.org](https://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/ag_facts.cfm)
[Mississippi Department of Agriculture](https://www.mdac.ms.gov/agency-info/mississippi-agriculture-snapshot/)
[Texas Department of Agriculture](http://www.texasagriculture.gov/About/TexasAgStats.aspx)
[Farm Bureau of Arkansas](http://www.arfb.com/pages/education/ag-facts/)
[Colorado Proud](https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/Colorado%20Proud%20Fun%20Facts.pdf)
[Connecticut Department of Agriculture](http://www.ct.gov/doag/cwp/view.asp?a=3768&q=458588)
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