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posted on 08/24/2010&nbs-07:00;@&nbs-07:00;05:08&nbs-07:00;am

California Agriculture
http://fubar.com/california-agriculture/b335526-1127355

The Central Valley, a flat plain 75 miles (120 km) wide and 430 miles (688 km) long has become the richest farming region in the history of the world.
California is the number one dairy state having surpassed Wisconsin in 1993.
There are more than 300,000 tons of grapes grown in California annually which in turn produces 17 million gallons of wine each year.
The world's largest almond processing plant, doing twelve million pounds per day in high season, is the Blue Diamond in Sacramento.
In 1997 enough strawberries were grown in California to circle the earth 15 times.
California is the largest producer of goods of all the states and the largest agricultural state in America.
Cash receipts from the marketing of California beef reached nearly $1.3 billion in 2002. That made cattle and calves the state's No. 4 crop or commodity in terms of value, behind only milk, grapes and nursery products.
California 's 22,000 beef producers care for more than 5 million head of cattle and about 37 million acres of rangeland. Many California cattle ranches have been owned by the same family for four or five generations and most ranches are family-owned and operated.