Dirt poor?

[Brigliadore]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Whoa nellie! The produce is possible but the grain can't be true. Anyone that's driven through the wheat fields of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, the Dakotas, etc would have a hard time with that. Besides, isn't California the land of fruits and nuts?

I was lumping fruits, nuts, vegetables and grain into one large clump, so the 60% I quoted includes all the above. California is one of the largest produces of Soy which is considered a grain. Nebraska and the Dakotas do produce a large amount of corn and wheat but you have to remember that just because corn is being grown doesn't mean its going to be eaten by humans. Around 54% of the grain grown in this country goes into animal food (dog food, horse grain, cattle feed, chicken scratch, etc.).
The number I stated were from 2000 but at that time they were accurate. I had to do a report in collage on it for my agricultural science class, so i had to dig up all that data from the USDA.