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Row Crops
Row crops occupy an enormous portion of the American agricultural landscape, ranging from cotton to peanuts to grain to sorghum to blueberries. In the U.S., seasonality, soil types and climate zones play an important role in determining where and when row crops will be grown and harvested.
From pumpkins to watermelons, and from soybeans to flax, row crops provide both animals and people with sustenance-large portions of the U.S. grain harvest are used to fatten livestock for market and slaughter. Beans, sunflowers and potatoes are some other row crops grown throughout the U.S.
Roughly 46 percent of the 931 million acres of undeveloped land in the U.S. is cropland. Of that cropland, fully 71 percent of it is harvested, while the remainder is fallow, idle, cover, failed crops or pastured, according to the 1997 Census of Agriculture, assembled by the federal Department of Agriculture.
Row Crops Links:
Crops Online
Harvest for Humanity
SDSU Row Crops Pathology Homepage
Georgia Row Crops
NDSU Row Crop Publications
Census of Agriculture
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