Source: Ken Levy, MSN, 11/8/19


With more than 329 million American mouths to feed and about $139.6 billion worth of agricultural exports, American farms need plenty of land to grow and produce crops. Thanks to widespread mechanization, American farms are some of the most productive on Earth, fetching high yields of the top-five crops: corn, soybeans, alfalfa and cotton. Those five crops account for over a third of the country’s exports. Livestock plays a vital role, too, with American farmers raising over 2 trillion cows, pigs, sheep and chickens.

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