For those from states not known for crops, what crop would your state be famous for if it were?
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volanger@reddit
Ct here. Probably tobacco.
Thalassinon@reddit
Minnesota here. I think we have corn? Not known for it, that's more what people joke about with our neighbor to the south, but we have it, too, and I'm not sure what else would work well here (but neither am I at all well-versed in our local agriculture).
ApprehensiveArmy7755@reddit
Peaches, silver queen corn, and tomatoes
Innuendo64_@reddit
I guess I'll sit this one out
GenFatAss@reddit
Pumpkin Illinois is the largest grower of Pumpkins in the United States.
svckafvck@reddit
I’ve lived here my whole life and actually didn’t know that… was gunna say corn since that covers like all the places around the Chicagoland area I call home lol
Bananas_are_theworst@reddit
You definitely notice it if you move away and realize there aren’t a million pumpkin patches to go to during October!
svckafvck@reddit
Wow that’s so sad!
Think-Departure-5054@reddit
Wait we are?? I only know about corn, soy beans and horse radish. We do seem to have an awful lot of pumpkin farms around but I thought that was standard for midwestern states
Efficient_Advice_380@reddit
Also one of the largest growers of sod
_pamelab@reddit
Also horseradish.
Sowf_Paw@reddit
Are they also the growers of the largest pumpkins?
ms-mariajuana@reddit
Hell yeah we are! Pumpkin capital of the world. :D
TheViolaRules@reddit
Could be the other one, soybeans
Willing_Recording222@reddit
Delaware is big on soybeans, but it’s such a small state, that it wouldn’t even matter in comparison!
Turkeyoak@reddit
And chickens. Delaware is the home of Perdue’s Chicken.
TheViolaRules@reddit
I thought y’all just grew tax shelters for corporations
GingerrGina@reddit
It's the beginning of football season in the Midwest so the idiots are in full bloom.
chauntikleer@reddit
"from states not known for crops"
Accomplished_Mix7827@reddit
Same
cajun-cottonmouth@reddit
I think every state has a crop. And there’s enough crops for each state to have an individual one. Maybe Alaska needs to borrow one from a state with more than one. I’m assuming ice cubes don’t count as crops.
ProjectGameGlow@reddit
Some might think of Minnesota as a corn place but up North their are sugar beet.
episcoqueer37@reddit
And wild rice.
Comediorologist@reddit
Wild rice for sure. Other states like Wisconsin and California grow it, but I think it's more identifiable as Minnesotan--especially since Wisconsin already has cranberries.
New_Construction_111@reddit
Minnesota is the largest exporter of wild rice in the state. If it was more popular across the country then it would definitely be what Minnesota would be known for.
velociraptorfarmer@reddit
Not to mention creamy chicken wild rice soup is a winter staple.
bryku@reddit
gimme some of that rice!
Rhomya@reddit
lol, I literally think of Minnesota as a sugar beet state, not a corn state, but that’s the difference between northern MN and southern MN.
Carbonatite@reddit
Lmao I learned that was a big thing in Idaho the first time I made a dumb comment about potatoes when I lived there. I was a grad student and one of my undergraduates was like "um actually we grow SUGAR BEETS where I'm from" and that's how I learned that only some parts of Idaho grow potatoes.
DaneLimmish@reddit
My family almost went bankrupt because of sugar beets. Back in the 1970s I guess it was still a tossup if corn or sugar beets were going to be the crop to replace sugarcane and my family went all in on sugar beets. They ended up fine in the end, but "goddamn sugar beets" is a thing my family will occasionally say with a snarl.
sharpshooter999@reddit
Western Nebraska too actually, we're 5th in the country. We grow dry, edible beans also
indigenousbliss@reddit
Corn. Guess my state!
norecordofwrong@reddit
Not my state but close, folks forget Maine was the original potato state.
New Hampshire might be maple syrup but it gets overshadowed by our neighbors.
MarkMental4350@reddit
The first potato in North America was planted in Derry New Hampshire.
norecordofwrong@reddit
No foolin’
I would not have suspected that. I used to work in Derry if I had known it was the ancestral home of the American potato I may have given it a bit more love.
An_elusive_potato@reddit
The amount of potatoes and timber in northern Maine surprised me when I 1st traveled there.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Oh yeah, soft wood an potatoes
BlondeZombie68@reddit
The best corn I’ve ever had in my whole life is grown in New Hampshire.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Yeah and weirdly I am from Indiana which produces crap tons of corn but my favorite sweet corn for eating has been Maine and New Hampshire.
The little farm stand near me is loaded with sweet corn right now
smokiechick@reddit
I'd like to argue for Maine blueberries, but I'm from Vermont.
Ok-Ambassador8271@reddit
Blueberries are the first thing I think of when I think of Maine agriculture
norecordofwrong@reddit
Yeah blueberries would be up there. Not so much in a commercial sense but small agriculture sense. Apples are like that around here too. Tons of pick your own small orchards but not huge commercial operations.
Carbonatite@reddit
Vermont wins for maple syrup and always will.
smokiechick@reddit
<3
Carbonatite@reddit
Where in VT are you from? I have family all over the state!
smokiechick@reddit
Right now? Rutland
norecordofwrong@reddit
Rutland is definitely pretty country. I haven’t been out that way in a while.
Lothar_Ecklord@reddit
NH and northern New England have such horrible soil for agriculture (it’s granite boulders that get pushed up in annual frost cycles - the only thing that grows is rock - underlain by granite bedrock and capped off with sand and clay… all of which make the soil so poor, it birthed the term “yankee ingenuity” because New Englanders were notoriously forced to improvise.
To that end, the top incomes for agriculture are Milk, eggs, turkey, and then finally apples and maple syrup.
NH for one grows more ice cream than actual crops.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Oh yeah, there’s a reason we have so many stone walls.
la-anah@reddit
I think most states have some sort of farming. My state is known for cranberries.
Upstairs-Storm1006@reddit
Yeah literally every state has major agriculture. It's probably a top 3 industry in every state.
VeronaMoreau@reddit
Do people know us for our apples outside of the state? I know people know Washington for apples, but does Michigan get thrown around in the apple conversation?
Like I get that our cherries are good and we have a whole festival for them, but our apples slap.
officialwhitecobra@reddit
That’s interesting, I never knew that about Michigan. I guess it’s kinda similar to Georgia. Most people know about our peaches, peanuts, pecans, Vidalia onions, and cotton. But I don’t see a lot of people that know GA is the top U.S. state for chicken and it’s our top agricultural product
Historical_Peanut778@reddit
Does your flair mean you’re moving to China? I assure you that is not in your best interest if that is your intention.
VeronaMoreau@reddit
Beloved, I've been here for like 4 years and I only plan to go back to the US for a short family visits. I'm having a great time.
Turkeyoak@reddit
Michigan also has a big sugar beet industry, but dwarfed by Colorado and Idaho
Dazzling-Climate-318@reddit
I dint know Colorado and Idaho grew any sugar beets at all. I’ve seen them in Ohio, Pioneer Sugar, and have seen them for sale in Michigan for deer hunting purposes, but that’s about it. I figured they grow ricks or Potatoes in Idaho and figured Eastern Colorado as Corn and Wheat production.
AllYallCanCarry@reddit
Corn, Wheat, and Beet is probably 98% of farmland in Colorado on the eastern slope. Hay is big too, if you count that.
ursulawinchester@reddit
Big beet at it again
WerewolfCalm5178@reddit
My stepfather is from Michigan. Back in the 80's he and my mom would come back from visiting his parents with several boxes of apples. My mom would spend a weekend making strudels and pies (unbaked). We had a larger freezer in the garage that she would place them in.
I honestly thought Michigan was known for their apples. I thought Washington was better known only because of Hollywood bias.
redditer-56448@reddit
As an Ohioan, I love Michigan apples 🍎 🍏
CyndiLouWho89@reddit
I’m in IL and MI is known for apples, cherries, berries etc. I feel like we get a good amount of non tropical fruits from MI if it’s not local.
prole6@reddit
We know of your apples! Mmm!😋
cjsv7657@reddit
I lived within walking distance of 2 apple orchards in MA and within of a 15 minute drive of 3 more. I always assumed MA was known for apples, we even took field trips to apple orchards in elementary school. You also couldn't drive more than 2 minutes without seeing maple trees tapped for sap. So I always assumed MA was known for apples and maple syrup.
Come to find out we aren't known for either.
Imightbeafanofthis@reddit
I have heard of Michigan apples. I think we get a lot of our Granny Smiths from Michigan -- or used to.
Gnumino-4949@reddit
I have no doubts.
breaststroker42@reddit
I’ve never heard of michigan for apples
boomer-rage@reddit
The cherries, and I picked the sweetest cultivated blueberries I’ve ever tasted outside Ann Arbor.
VeronaMoreau@reddit
Alright, I gotta get in touch with the marketing team or something.
Dazzling-Climate-318@reddit
Of course I’ve heard of Michigan Apples and have bought quite a few, though honestly I tend to buy locally grown Ohio Apples. I’ve always found it odd that stores sell Washington Apples, but figured they must get them cheap because the orchards are out in the middle of nowhere and thus have lower costs of production.
Silocin20@reddit
I have, I have family that lives there.
SphericalCrawfish@reddit
There are a few orchards where their hard cider is ONLY known outside of MI. Blake's (I think) couldn't sell in state for several years.
My uncle is a liquor distributor rep and he would go to conventions or whatever and people would freak because we were from right down the road from where the cider was made.
Jorost@reddit
Rhode Island has no major agriculture to speak of. Certainly not in the top three of their economy. Their biggest industries are health services, real estate, professional and business services, tourism, and manufacturing.
Weary-Astronaut1335@reddit
Yeah but you could also drive across Rhode Island quicker than you could LA or London.
Nan_Mich@reddit
Yes, it is hardly big enough to hold a couple of farm fields, so they should get a pass😉
Jorost@reddit
Well we are dealing with percentages here. So even a small state could still have a large amount of its economy come from agriculture proportionally. Massachusetts is pretty small too, but we happen to be one of the few places in the US that can produce cranberries, so proportionally a big part of our economy is cranberry growing (still not top ten though).
Jorost@reddit
You can walk across Rhode Island faster than you can drive across LA!
annang@reddit
It’s not in the top 3, but I think it’s in the top 5.
Jorost@reddit
It's not. The top six are the ones I listed, in order.
Diagrammar@reddit
So cubicle farms?
Jorost@reddit
Haha! Looks like a good crop this year!
daffodil0127@reddit
Doesn’t RI have a lot of turf farms? I remember something about that when my brother went to URI.
Tizzy8@reddit
I have learned from these forts of conversations that Michigan grows pretty much all the same things as New England, which makes sense given the similar climates. I know Michigan has apples and apple culture from Reddit but I do f know if I’d know about it otherwise.
wooper346@reddit
It exists in every state, but top 3 might be pushing it in a few.
States like Alaska and Rhode Island aren't exactly known for their ag output, unless you count commercial fishing.
ComStar_Service_Rep@reddit
Alaska actually has pretty productive farm land, but the area cultivated is small. Look up the monster sized produce that 20+ hour summer days and rich alluvial soil produces.
annang@reddit
Pretty sure agriculture is in the top 5 industries in Rhode Island. They produce a lot of milk there.
IceePirate1@reddit
Fishing can absolutely be a form of farming. I think you could also broaden it to be "resource extraction" to include things like logging and mining
accidental_Ocelot@reddit
logging is largely controlled by the United States department of agriculture or usda being as there are literally tree farms in existence I think you could count logging as farming it's just on a much more massive scale your dealing with mega fauna.
mining on the other hand I don't think you can count as farming your not sticking anything in the ground and growing it and then harvesting it I don't think I meets the definition. all your doing is digging up minerals from the ground to be used in industry nothing is growing.
Carbonatite@reddit
Mining would definitely be what my state is known for (Colorado)! However, we actually have a lot of fruit production on the Utah side of the state (i.e., Palisade peaches) and that region is a mini wine country as well! And once you get east of Denver it's basically just like you arrived in Kansas, even though it takes a couple hours to actually cross into Kansas. Probably more cattle grazing than crops, though. Just prairie.
DawaLhamo@reddit
Mega flora, but yes, I agree. Mining is resource extraction, but so is oil and natural gas: not farming (even if we call them "solar farms", they're not really farms in the traditional sense.)
accidental_Ocelot@reddit
yeah sorry I'll edit that real quick
jub-jub-bird@reddit
Ehh... not every state. Rhode Island has very little agriculture and it's not even close to a top three industry in the state. It's really just a few small scale truck farms producing seasonal fresh produce for local markets, some small dairy farms and nurseries & sod farms catering to local landscaping needs.
Professional_Sea1479@reddit
Yeah, even Nevada grows alfalfa, potatoes and to a lesser extent, some grain. Although most of the alfalfa is exported…
SaintsFanPA@reddit
Given that the agricultural sector for the US is around 1% of GDP, I'm going to say no.
OldWolfNewTricks@reddit
Must be from Utah. Beautiful bog country.
165averagebowler@reddit
I had to check your location because WI is also a very large cranberry producer. More so than Mass. if I recall correct. Though California now surpasses the dairy state in milk production.
la-anah@reddit
Wisconsin is a bigger place. I'm sure they produce a bigger volume than Massachusetts of all sorts of stuff.
itcheyness@reddit
Mine too, also ginseng weirdly enough.
It's mostly dairy though, which isn't a crop lol
CyndiLouWho89@reddit
Cranberries, Door County cherries, wild rice
Firlotgirding@reddit
WI produces the most cranberries in country, so there is that as well.
Mistletokes@reddit
Yeah they stole that title from us
Fair-Border-9944@reddit
You still have high taxes and racism
Mistletokes@reddit
Have you ever been here or are you afraid of liberals
AlabasterPelican@reddit
¯\(ツ)/¯ agricultural product
phydaux4242@reddit
Mass?
la-anah@reddit
Is my flair not clear?
infinitefacets@reddit
The state I grew up in doesn’t have a major crop. Hay is about the only thing grown, for livestock purposes. It’s not really geographically prime for growing anything.
Pleasant_Garlic8088@reddit
Cranberries and transcendentalism, lol.
kilofeet@reddit
Hi, other American here. Your state is known for destroying tea. This is literally the first time I've heard of Massachusetts cranberries
(It's cool with the tea thing though, they had it coming)
Khaleesi_dany_t@reddit
My state produces 40% of the nations rice!!!
Neat-Neighborhood595@reddit
And Concord grapes
Curmudgy@reddit
Cranberries are the obvious answer, though WI produces twice as much. I wouldn’t know where to get MA cranberries. Maybe Ocean Spray sources from multiple states.
When I think of local crops that I actually care about, it’s corn, apples, tomatoes, and berries. There’s other locally grown produce, but those are the ones that are important to me. In the case of apples, it’s because there are more varieties from local orchards than available in supermarkets. For the others, it’s simply because being picked within the last 24 hours is better.
Tizzy8@reddit
You can get local cranberries at a regular supermarket when they’re in season, just like apples. Ocean Spray includes cranberries from MA as well as 5 other states, parts of Canada, and Chile.
DoookieMaxx@reddit
The spirit of Massachusetts …
la-anah@reddit
...is the spirit of America
Randygilesforpres2@reddit
Hey us too! My roommate in college got free ocean spray juice. Best deal ever. Also for apples. And seafood.
WhatABeautifulMess@reddit
There are grapes grown for wine in all 50 sates.
JenniferJuniper6@reddit
I was just going to say that. It’s either New Jersey or Massachusetts, right?
2Cthulhu4Scthulhu@reddit
Back in the day, western mass used to have a ton of tobacco farms too
glacialerratical@reddit
North Central Connecticut has that as well. I used to drive past tobacco barns on the way to Bradley airport, but now it's a big Amazon distribution center.
bopguerta@reddit
Was about to say this. BOGS 4EVER!
Ok_Helicopter2305@reddit
Is that spider thing true when it comes to harvesting cranberries?
Admeral_Fisticuffs@reddit
If it’s known for cranberries, it’s also known for dairy and beer. Good place to be.
Jorost@reddit
Came here to say cranberries.
ShakarikiGengoro@reddit
Yet we never actually get them in stores. Most of the ones we get are from out of state.
Lesbianfool@reddit
Yep cranberry bogs full of fucking spiders 🤮
birthdayanon08@reddit
We're known for our chiles. Even though we produce more dairy, cattle, hay, onions, and pecans than chiles.
SkepticalJohn@reddit
New Mexico and Green Chile have a sort of spiritual relationship. The little town of Hatch has a big impact on the world.
Carbonatite@reddit
Colorado also likes to obsess about green chile, I've learned!
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
I think that’s the only food we’re kind of known to actually eat more of than most other states. You’ll see people say we’re known for Rocky Mountain Oysters but nobody actually eats those much or is very enthusiastic about them like green chile.
BeerForThought@reddit
Yes but embrace Pueblo chilis.
Drew707@reddit
I just found some fresh ones in the grocery store today and plan to make tacos with them tonight. I've only had the canned variety up until now!
SkepticalJohn@reddit
Hold over heat or under broiler until some spots are blackened. Then seal them in a ziplock for a while while still hot. Wait until the skin strips off easily. Remove the seeds and stems.
Drew707@reddit
I ended up covering them in avocado oil and Charing them on the grill then shocking in water to peel. Mixed them in with the taco meat and they came out pretty good.
alvvavves@reddit
NM is strongly associated with green Chile though so I’m not sure it applies.
MikeExMachina@reddit
Hatch chiles are on the license plate, akin to oranges and peaches in Fl & Ga.
Sabertooth767@reddit
Hemp.
Kentucky has the perfect climate for it, and it was a huge industry back in the day. But then the war on drugs happened and the federal government basically banned it.
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
You know what I don’t get? Hemp was talked about to be this completely miracle plant. Perfect for paper, ropes, etc. But the nasty government banned it in favor of lumber industry and because it looked like weed.
However, here we are with hemp legal in half the US and all of Canada but nobody is growing it.
captainstormy@reddit
Tobacco used to be huge in Kentucky too. I hardly ever see it growing when driving around back home anymore.
My family used to farm 600ish acres until the early 2000s.
Ok-Ambassador8271@reddit
They farmed 600 acres? Or they farmed 600 acres of tobacco?
captainstormy@reddit
It wasn't all tobacco but most of it was. The vast majority of it was tobacco. Probably 500ish of the acres was tobacco.
A lot bigger than the typical family tobacco farm. It didn't start out that way. My great grandfather started out with 50 or so acres IIRC. Over the years as surrounding land became available he would buy it up and my grandfather continued to do the same.
Most of the vegetables we grew were just from ourselves and other friends and family. That was only 4-5 acres total. We didn't do a lot of livestock. A couple of dozen chickens, a few pigs and cows per year. We had a few horses for the fun of it. There are some woods, ponds and streams too. I still go back home to get a few deer to fill my freezer every year.
Ok-Ambassador8271@reddit
With that kind of acreage of tobacco in KY back then, you'd almost have to be a Baesler.
sysnickm@reddit
Seems like many have switched to corn or soybeans, or shopping malls.
captainstormy@reddit
My family stopped farming it ourselves and rent it out to other nearby farmers.
Some of the land is used for cattle, a lot of it is corn. Some of it is a whole mix of different veggies.
BigDSuleiman@reddit
My buddy's grandad used to grow hemp back in the day. I think hes in his 90s now
TheViolaRules@reddit
Ginseng. Wisconsin grows the vast, vast majority of US ginseng
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
That’s crazy, I grew up in WI and had no clue.
Lamballama@reddit
Soy as well - Kikkoman grows and bottles their soy sauce here for their non-japanese markets
2Asparagus1Chicken@reddit
Not even a top 10 state.
TheViolaRules@reddit
That’s true!
norecordofwrong@reddit
Indiana and popcorn corn is like that. We grow a lot of corn but the stuff used for popcorn is pretty localized.
cjsv7657@reddit
Most people don't even know there are different corns for different things.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Heh I didn’t even as a kid. Me and my cousins stole some field corn and cooked it. It was, shall we say, unpleasant.
cjsv7657@reddit
I live near small cornfields and I didn't know until recently because all people grow in my state is sweet corn.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Yeah around me now it’s almost all sweet corn. In the Midwest where I grew up it was all field corn for cattle feed or ethanol.
Dazzling-Climate-318@reddit
Some of the Popcorn grown in the U.S. is grown in Ohio, Marion Ohio has a Popcorn Festival.
Sleepygirl57@reddit
Yep. Mil is best friends with the wife of a farmer that grows for Pop Weaver.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Yeah when I was a kid I didn’t understand the difference between types of corn.
We stole some ears from the farm next to my Neenaw’s house. Not only was it awful field corn but we also got punished and had to walk over a mile and apologize to her neighbor.
I didn’t learn until later that popcorn was its own breed.
All that is to say that Neenaw did not countenance stealing corn and we learned our lesson.
Sleepygirl57@reddit
Field corn is such a disappointment when you think you’re picking sweet corn
velociraptorfarmer@reddit
Same thing with Minnesota growing a shit-ton of sweetcorn. Hence, Green Giant.
norecordofwrong@reddit
Yeah it’s funny up here in New England. Almost everything is sweet corn to sell at grocery stores, farmers markets, or roadside stands. Farms are pretty small.
In the Midwest where I am from it’s all field corn on massive farms.
wind_moon_frog@reddit
Nah, you’re cows.
TheViolaRules@reddit
I was unaware that cow was a crop.
Lamballama@reddit
It's regenerative - you can harvest their legs indefinitely if you plant the rest in the ground
TheViolaRules@reddit
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
Ok_Orchid1004@reddit
Taro root
teriKatty@reddit
Probably cotton (Alabama)
Recent_Permit2653@reddit
Our crop is cattle lol. And we are still famous for cotton although that’s not as much of a thing.
Honestly, I think Texas pecans are really good, I’d like Texas to be famous for it.
Ragtime07@reddit
Well I’m from North Carolina. I’m assuming everyone’s aware we’re known for tobacco?
2Asparagus1Chicken@reddit
Pork
phydaux4242@reddit
Tobacco is a vegetable
Rbkelley1@reddit
This answer makes me think you are too
Tizzy8@reddit
I associate NC with Christmas Trees but I’m not sure if that’s based on anything.
Objective_Bar_5420@reddit
It's *TOASTED*
Ragtime07@reddit
Ah yes, thank you.
FuturePrimitiv3@reddit
Mmmmm, delicious delicious tobacco
faithisnotavirtue42@reddit
Is negativity a crop?
Asking for New Jersey.
MorningAngel420@reddit
Pecans maybe
sandsonik@reddit
Pasta or pizza or clams/oysters, lol
RI
Not much of a farm state except for aquatic farming.
But if we could grow pasta, boy howdy, we would!
RobotShlomo@reddit
Boredom.
gigisnappooh@reddit
Cotton, soybeans and watermelon
z0mbiebaby@reddit
Mississippi produces most of the farm raised catfish for the rest of the country if catfish counts as a “crop”
Terrible-Image9368@reddit
Oklahoma is known for wheat
Extension_Order_9693@reddit
A few from places I've lived:
AR was historically known for quality tomatoe production, in particular the pink Traveler variety.
CO grows the best peaches Ive had in the west slope.
OR is the largest pear producing state (potted plants for transplanting is also big).
rinky79@reddit
Oregon produces 99% of filberts (hazelnuts) grown in the US.
Mysterious_Eggplant1@reddit
My state is known for growing crops in general (CA) but I would say citrus.
Airacobras@reddit
Pennsylvania - Mushrooms
Sovereign2142@reddit
I'd also add Chipping Potatoes. Nearly all of our state's potato production goes toward chips, making PA the leading potato chip producer in the country.
rubikscanopener@reddit
We're the kings of junk food.
DrGerbal@reddit
Moms side lives up near Bedford pa. I was shocked how common Morels were up there. Their one neighbor just goes out when they’re the most abundant picks a shit ton and drops my grandparents off some. They’d some em in buttermilk than pan fry them
RatCatSlim@reddit
That’s one way my family does morels too! In Washington.
Unknown1776@reddit
Yeah PA grows around 70% of the country’s mushrooms. Even though there’s probably more corn/tobacco with the Amish, percentage wise of the whole country, nothing is close to mushrooms
Federal-Membership-1@reddit
Kennett Square, mushroom capital of the world
mykepagan@reddit
Not Reading?
Blonde_Libra@reddit
Ug, the smell.
Packwood88@reddit
Dated a girl for a few years who lived nearby. The smell near kennett square is horrendous
Makshak_924@reddit
STINKY
shelwood46@reddit
PA has so many pig farms. So many.
pusheenforchange@reddit
For farmed mushrooms, definitely. For wild mushrooms, Washington is easily the leader. We have a large export market for rare wild mushrooms that don't grow anywhere else.
Round_Asparagus4765@reddit
SC produces more peaches than GA
GobbleGobbleSon@reddit
NC would be known for peanuts, soy beans, corn, and sweet potatoes. Once upon a time, it’d be cotton and tobacco. We still farm those but majority are imported from overseas. My grandfather was a tobacco farmer.
Throwawayproroe@reddit
Washington produces the most apples, cherries, blueberries, pears, and hops! Were most known for our apples (if you’ve ever had a cosmic crisp those are courtesy of WSU’s agriculture department), but our Rainer and Bing cherries are up there!
GhostOfJamesStrang@reddit
Cherries.
too_too2@reddit
Michigan also produces the second most produce items I think.. behind California. We have tons of fruit trees and most stuff grows here
Throwawayproroe@reddit
Actually Washington produces the most cherries! I grew up in south central WA (where the majority of the orchards are) and we produce the most apples, blueberries, cherries, pears, hops, and spearmint oil. Second in cherry production is Oregon, and then California
norecordofwrong@reddit
And growing up we always got excited with the sticker on the cherries that said it was from Michigan. “Oh coool the state just north of us!”
PurpleLilyEsq@reddit
Apples.
I don’t know how many people who travel to NYC know that NY state is covered in apple orchards and the NYC nickname big apple didn’t come about randomly.
drinkdrinkshoesgone@reddit
Hey man. Dont be talking shit over there! We got apples too.
RightYouAreKen1@reddit
That’s one way to put it. Another way is that we grow 6 times more apples than New York. https://usapple.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/USApple-Production-Estimate-2025.pdf
drinkdrinkshoesgone@reddit
We do. Mister big dick thinks New York is superior to WA when it comes to apples.
Tizzy8@reddit
The question was what would you be known for, not who grows the most. Washington isn’t known for apples the way New York is.
Throwawayproroe@reddit
Washington is absolutely known for our apples. It’s right up there with coffee and rain as what we’re most known for. The only way I associate NY with apples is knowing NYC is called the big apple, otherwise I’d never think of NY for apples.
Ok-Equivalent8260@reddit
Lmao, yes it is
yabbobay@reddit
You take big apples; we'll take big dicks.
drinkdrinkshoesgone@reddit
... shove an apple in my mouth and roast me?
Rhubarb_and_bouys@reddit
You def grow more. We just have nicer orchards usually with a larger variety of apples that were developed out here.
Nan_Mich@reddit
But those darned “delicious” ones only look good. Taste like nothing.
drinkdrinkshoesgone@reddit
The red delicious are shit tier apples. They have poor texture, poor flavor, poor juiciness, and poor sweetness.
Rj924@reddit
Aparently they used to be better.
Rj924@reddit
But we have Cornell. The developer of said apples.
Tigerzombie@reddit
I’m in central NY. There is at least 6 different apple orchards within a 40 min drive of my house. I thought it was funny we have a favorite orchard we’d like to take the kids to when before there was only 1 that was remotely close by.
couchsweetpotato@reddit
I’m from Rochester and I grew up out in the outskirts of the suburbs about 15 min away from the Mott’s plant. Lots and lots of apple orchards over here in the Finger Lakes region too.
yabbobay@reddit
I'm on LI and have an orchard 10 minutes away!
Tigerzombie@reddit
I think the closest orchard is 15 min away but it’s smaller and doesn’t have the varieties we like. When I was growing up in NJ we only went apple picking once and the place was over an hour away.
PurpleLilyEsq@reddit
Growing up there were apple orchards on both sides of my house and the owners let us pick what we wanted. They’ve both been long sold though and houses are there now. At least we’ve been lucky with the “new” neighbors being nice, even if they can’t offer us free apples lol.
Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit
Anyone with a garden knows about New York and apples. Most of the varieties were bred there.
Ok_Gas5386@reddit
My two favorite apple varieties - empire (for eating) and cortland (for baking) originated in New York.
MomRaccoon@reddit
Also hay for the dairy cows!
Alien_Biometrics@reddit
Nj, the garden state. Tomatoes.
AVDLatex@reddit
The best. Along with blueberries
riarws@reddit
Blueberries for sure
JimmyJackJericho@reddit
Maine would like a word about Blueberries
Throwawayproroe@reddit
Washington produces the most blueberries of any state! I’m very proud of our fruit production lol
BracedRhombus@reddit
Yep. Wild blueberries have the best flavor.
Aggravating_Bell_426@reddit
They're actually the largest edible plant crop by value.
The largest crop by acreage planted is Soybeans, mostly as livestock feed..
mykepagan@reddit
Yes on tomatoes but NJ is actually a top producer of blueberries.
Our tomatoes are probably small quantities relative to other states.
Federal-Membership-1@reddit
Everybody's local tomatoes and sweet corn are the best anywhere in the world. Blueberries require special conditions. That's why Hammonton is the world capital.
Xistential0ne@reddit
Nope, California tomatoes and corn absolutely suck. Best tomatoes I’ve ever had are consistently in NJ. Ohio corn
Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit
That just means they sent you the worst ones. Good tomatoes don't ship well. Wherever you are, good tomatoes are local. When you live in California you can get good tomatoes. The Central Valley grows huge amounts of produce, mostly to send to other places. We also have orchards. Lots of fruit. For many years Campbell's made tomato soup in Sacramento. If I want good corn, in season, I know where to get it. Corn is only good when very fresh.
Xistential0ne@reddit
My favorite tomato in the world is a beef steak fresh off the vine from the New Jersey soil. I’ve pulled beef steak, fugs, heirloom, etc. fresh off the vine in California. They’re not as good. Corn. ya yiu can get awesome corn in California at the very beginning of the season. There’s just a longer season with sweet corn in Ohio.
Federal-Membership-1@reddit
The sweet corn season in my state goes well into October now. Much longer than when I was a kid.
Xistential0ne@reddit
Yeah, so when I moved to California years ago, it was bizarre to me. The best corn in California is in the spring by the Fourth of July, it sucks exact opposite of the East Coast. So you can still get delicious corn for Halloween now that’s weird. Where I grew up the best was at the end of the season best for corn ever
Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit
Maybe that's a varietal difference. I don't care for beefsteak tomatoes, perhaps because they aren't as good here. Other tomatoes are very good.
Discount_Plumber@reddit
I didn't even know blueberries were a thing for large production in NJ. WA, OR, CA, GA, and MI are the 5 biggest producers in the US.
shelwood46@reddit
Rutges (the NJ state uni) has a whole department coming up with new recipes for blueberries.
MadMaxBeyondThunder@reddit
I get my blueberries in the wine country in New York.
Carbonatite@reddit
California produces like 80% of the winter produce in the US. The Imperial Valley by the Salton Sea is a huge ag region.
Phil_ODendron@reddit
Blueberries were cultivated for the first time and grown as a commercial crop in NJ.
NJ usually falls around number 6 or 7 for blueberry production although it's the 4th smallest state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Coleman_White
OnlyDaysEndingInWhy@reddit
Currently working through some of your beautiful tomatoes my husband smuggled down here to Florida. Made an incredible galette last night and BLTs tonight along with some Silver Queen corn. Truly the best I've ever had.
Ananvil@reddit
Huh, I thought NJs major production was cigarette butts
ColoradoWeasel@reddit
NJ - Silver Queen corn for the win. Sweet Corn at the roadside stands all over South Jersey.
Carbonatite@reddit
My mom is from NJ and that stuff was a childhood staple! (I also grew up in the mid Atlantic, in Maryland though). I guess for MD it's the blue crabs? Haha
Carbonatite@reddit
My mom is from NJ and she was always insistent on getting "jersey sweet corn" and tomatoes in the summer if we could (grew up in Maryland). I gotta say I do think she was right about the corn! It was either the pale white kernels or a mix of yellow and white. Out west it's mostly the yellow stuff, which is a little starchier and harder to digest.
Minnow_Minnow_Pea@reddit
I like your peaches, too!
WrongJohnSilver@reddit
Although New York and Washington are more famous for apples now, they got their start (along with applejack) in New Jersey.
An8thOfFeanor@reddit
Fuck the tomatoes, I'll take the 'scarole
TheOnlyJimEver@reddit
Connecticut. Maybe tobacco.
Ill-Butterscotch1337@reddit
Definitely Tobacco. Connecticut tobacco wrappers are pretty much the gold standard. Most of it is grown in south America now but it's still called Connecticut shade.
Streamjumper@reddit
One of our state's heroes, Israel Putnam, in addition to being a badass and absolute madman, cultivated one of the progenitors to the modern Connecticut strains.
Ill-Butterscotch1337@reddit
Yes! Great figure to read into.
Streamjumper@reddit
Definitely tobacco. Two of the best wrapper leaves are Connecticut Broadleaf and Connecticut Shade.
AdInevitable2695@reddit
I would want to also say oysters but they're not a crop. They are farmed, though.
danhm@reddit
Connecticut grows a surprisingly large amount of Christmas trees.
No_Thought_7776@reddit
New York is known for apples.
tigerlily4501@reddit
Hedge fund managers and real estate agents. :)
C19shadow@reddit
I think Oregon is the top producer of hazelnuts in the country. So probably that. People know us for grapes and shit to.
ClemofNazareth@reddit
Is meth a crop?
WhichSpirit@reddit
My state is the nation's largest producer of eggplants.
Playful-Business7457@reddit
I'm from Texas, so probably Strange Fruit
GreatRecipeCollctr29@reddit
California almonds, garlic, oranges, and artichoke. There are many crops that originated from here. It really depends where they originate. Gilroy for garlic, almonds mostly in Central Valley, Valencia for oranges. That's what I know from the top of my head.
sadpell@reddit
Virginia - tobacco
WerewolfCalm5178@reddit
There's an annual Strawberry Festival less than an hour outside Tampa, but I think most people the Oranges when they think of Florida. Sugar Cane is a huge crop here too.
redditer-56448@reddit
Idk if Ohio is known for anything besides the bigger cash crops--corn, soybeans, & wheat. And I doubt we produce more of any of those than other Midwest states? I think soybeans are our main agricultural output.
Hopeful_Ad_7719@reddit
NC is the Sweet Potato capital of the USA (over 50% of US production), but it doesn't seem to be too well known for that. We're better known as a BBQ state.
Fun_Inspector_8633@reddit
Even though we’re known mostly for corn here there are quite a few apple orchards here that are fantastic. Sadly the one we used to go to closed after the owners retired. It looks like someone else is trying to reopen it again.
UncleOdious@reddit
1 producer of tart cherries in the USA.
mykepagan@reddit
I’m from New Jersey, which the rest of the country considers a suburban/industrial wasteland.
BUT…
NJ is also a top producer of blueberries, cranberries, and tomatoes. Also produces fabulous sweet corn.
So for this question I’d say blueberries.
Weightmonster@reddit
With the exception of RI, I’m pretty sure all states have crops they are known for.
LifeApprehensive2818@reddit
Massachusetts (probably most of New England): rocks. Digging is set to "nightmare difficulty" around here.
Carbonatite@reddit
You must not neglect the most exquisite and coveted Massachusetts export of all, though...Dunkin Donuts!
bitternerd_95@reddit
Our native New England foodways
Streamjumper@reddit
And Fred the Baker's gift to easy navigation of our landscape.
bitternerd_95@reddit
But those rocks fuel the lucrative "random stone wall in the middle of nowhere" industry. The linchpin of the New England economy!
Wetald@reddit
Lots of blueberries and maple syrup!!!
bitternerd_95@reddit
Cranberries! At least on the South Shore
LifeApprehensive2818@reddit
... I am ashamed I forgot this. Thank you :)
FeelTheWrath79@reddit
I think we have a lot of Alfalfa.
JonSnowKingInTheNorf@reddit
Illinois- soybeans
Fae-SailorStupider@reddit
Minnesota is mostly corn and soybeans
uwu_mewtwo@reddit
Minnesota is the largest producer of sugar beets, and by a lot.
BigNorseWolf@reddit
New York. Apples. And now tha prohibition has been over long enough for cider apple trees to grow back, apple cider!
uwu_mewtwo@reddit
Minnesota. Sugar beets.
Mushrooming247@reddit
It’s probably not well-known outside of my state of Pennsylvania, but we should be renowned for our mushrooms.
We produce more mushrooms than any other state and many other countries, we have a huge mushroom-growing industry.
Plus we have a huge variety of free mushrooms just laying around all over the place all year long, I eat free mushrooms at least once a week, my whole refrigerator is full of delicious free proteins.
Sapphire_Dreams1024@reddit
Clams and oysters maybe?
quietly_annoying@reddit
Wild rice.
furniguru@reddit
Cherries and apples
princesshusk@reddit
Apples, mushrooms, bell peppers, clams, and the worst kind of wealthy assholes.
Temporary-Moments@reddit
Tennessee - soybeans, then they rotate to corn and then they make moonshine.
Artz-RbB@reddit
Yep. We all spend a few weeks in every elementary grade learning the main crops for each state and the details of crops for our own state.
Artz-RbB@reddit
Mine is sugar, cotton, pine, & rice
you guess the state?
ActuaLogic@reddit
The state I live in used to be known for tobacco. I don't know if it has a reputation for any particular crop now.
phydaux4242@reddit
NH - Apples & maple syrup
Karamist623@reddit
I’m from Jersey. We are known as the “Garden State”. We have cranberries, corn, tomatoes, and a myriad of other things.
REO_Speed_Dragon@reddit
Oregon. Blackberries. We don't even have to farm them they grow like weeds.
Allenies@reddit
About 95% of all pumpkins grown in the U. S. Are grown in my state.
Quix66@reddit
Sugarcane. We used to be famous for cotton too.
1PumpkinKiing@reddit
Chile. The best chole in the world comes from here. There's even a town known as the chile capital of the world.
Other states want to say they have the best chile, but I literally have none of that hometown/state/country pride that everyone seems to have, and i can say that it's not true. I absolutely hate it here. There are some good people, but the area is ugly as hell and just sucks, I mean, it's a desert. So I do my best to travel to other places as much as possible, and I'm planning on selling my house and moving to another country.
There are 3 things I will miss when I move: family, friends, and the best chile in the world, but I am planning on taking some seeds with me.
Nan_Mich@reddit
Tart cherries, soybeans, apples, corn.
Nan_Mich@reddit
I forgot our asparagus and carrots. In the peat bogs.
YonderPricyCallipers@reddit
Cranberries
wwhsd@reddit
California - We’re well known for producing a lot of fruits, nuts, and vegetables. It’s our grain production that I think we aren’t known for. California produces a lot of grain. We produce more sweet corn than any other state and only one state produces more rice.
FlyingSquirlez@reddit
I think grapes or almonds would take the crown for best known crops from CA, but yeah, we grow tons of stuff. I knew we grew rice, but I didn't know it was THAT much. Pretty cool!
Drew707@reddit
Definitely those followed by artichokes, avocados, and probably garlic.
sleepygrumpydoc@reddit
California grows 90% of the garlic for the US. More is actually grown in the Fresno area than Gilroy but Gilroy remains famous for it.
Drew707@reddit
Didn't know that about Fresno. TIL!
Carbonatite@reddit
I work on some environmental projects related to soil and water issues around the Salton Sea. I think it's really cool that the Imperial Valley grows like 80% of winter produce in the lower 48! Tons of broccoli, cabbages, carrots, etc. I drive past nonstop veggies when I go there! Plus the date palms!
Ragnarok345@reddit
Is dust a crop? ………are traffic cones a crop?
subduedexcitement123@reddit
Washington apples baby! I guess alfalfa, oats, and lentils are also pretty common here. Huckleberries and salmon are also commonly associated with Washington State. But most of the salmon here comes from Alaska these days. To many dams in our rivers. Fishing them is highly restricted.
subduedexcitement123@reddit
If I were to recommend anything from my state it would be: honey crisp apples (allot of farmers are very protective of these trees in my area, it might be a little spendy but it's the best apple you will ever eat) and huckleberries. Which is also spendy. Hard to describe the flavor. Kinda simiar to a blueberry but better? They can't be cultivated easily so it's kinda seasonal. The bears also love them so you want to carry a can of bear mace when foraging them. Bears kill people every year. You have to know how to compose yourself while in bear country. I typically keep an eye out for morell and puffball mushrooms, stinging nettles and cattails. All of these are fantastic but require a basic knowledge of the environment. I don't recommend foraging by yourself the first few times. You don't want to eat anything poisonous.
porcelainvacation@reddit
Hazelnuts and Walnuts (Oregon)
nevadapirate@reddit
I only see two crops go though town on trucks where you can tell. Onions and hay. Typically alfalfa I believe. Nevada is not real big on agriculture. More mineral in our industry.
silkywhitemarble@reddit
I learned in another sub that we grow alfalfa in circle farms in desert areas, but much of it is sent overseas. I looked it up, and it's cattle and calves, then hay. I saw onions on another list.
eightcarpileup@reddit
Cotton was the answer upon its founding. Currently, it’s peaches.
BeerForThought@reddit
More peaches than the peach state by far
EfficientAd5635@reddit
And rice / indigo in the lowcountry
eightcarpileup@reddit
Side note about the rice; we’re one of the few states where rice outpaces the potato. I remember every few years going on a field trip to a rice plantation growing up. The demonstrations of how they’d work the rice. I grew up in the low country and I can’t imagine being knee deep in sediment, swatting away the mosquitoes, being baked to death by the sun, always having to keep your eyes peeled for gators. All while being treated as a slave. Nothing will imprint the harrowing life quite like returning to the scene of the crime.
Pleasant_Garlic8088@reddit
Massachusetts.
Transcendentalism
Sarcasm
Cranberries
DevilPixelation@reddit
Is Texas really known for a specific crop? Besides all the big grains like wheat, corn, and sorghum, of course.
infinitefacets@reddit
My home state, WV, has no major crop production. Nothing edible for humans anyway. The geography isn’t suited for farming. It’s entirely mountainous with very little flat land and the land that’s flat isn’t fertile anymore. Hay for livestock is about the only thing grown in any large quantity.
Opposite-Act-7413@reddit
Yeah, I don’t know what you mean by states not known for crops. Most states farm something.
northakbud@reddit
Weed
Hollow-Official@reddit
Not much grows here, melons can handle arid high desert so those probably
vabeachkevin@reddit
Cheesesteaks.
Rokmonkey_@reddit
Does wild blueberries count? 99% of all wild blueberries in the country are harvested here.
dadbodsupreme@reddit
Washington?
Rokmonkey_@reddit
Maine. Forgot to add that.
rockninja2@reddit
Basic corn or wheat, or kale probably.
I don't think marijuana counts as a "crop."
bluecifer7@reddit
Palisade peaches and Rocky ford cantaloupes! Or pueblo chiles
rockninja2@reddit
Palisade peaches and pears are good.... Haven't heard of the Rocky Ford cantaloupes before
P.S. I like your username
____ozma@reddit
They unfortunately got a lot of bad press due to a listeria outbreak a few years ago.
Carbonatite@reddit
Your username and flair lol.
I still say "Colorahdo", I've been here over 11 years but I can't escape my transplant roots haha! My native friends are okay with it though, since I didn't move here from Texas or California.
All praise to our veiny blue overlord!
alvvavves@reddit
I’m from here and thus have a lot of friends from here and we all say “ColoRAHdo.” “ColoRADo” seems like it’s more rural or some old west Texas infiltration.
bluecifer7@reddit
It's all in jest anyways, since it's a lost cause lol
wormbreath@reddit
Don’t forget the palisade peaches! 🍑
Carbonatite@reddit
That's what I always think of for us! Palisade peaches and the little winery area on the Western Slope.
rockninja2@reddit
True, palisade peaches and pears (even apples), but not sure if that would count as a staple crop...
Mental_Internal539@reddit
Maryland is known for corn and soy
juliabk@reddit
Texas and rice. The state used to be the biggest exporter of rice in the US. Not sure what it’s like at the moment as I’ve been gone from Texas for a decade
Warm_Hotel_3025@reddit
Does Ai count?
DOMSdeluise@reddit
according to wikipedia Texas is the largest producer of livestock (not a crop I know) in the US, as well as a major source of rice and cotton (not an edible crop but a crop nonetheless).
Zip_Silver@reddit
Rice, cotton, and corn sound about right.
Also grapefruit from the RGV, but Idk if that's a well known thing outside the state.
Ok-Ambassador8271@reddit
When i think of crops in Texas, I think of milo.
Wit_and_Logic@reddit
We also produce lots of corn, but the only things I think we are leaders in are ranch products. Cows, goats, chickens, rattlesnakes, llamas and alpacas, hogs, plus the various "exotic" meats and leathers like nilgai, which represent a small quantity, but a relatively large value.
Dan0321@reddit
New Hampshire…I would say apples. There are many orchards here.
holodeck_warranty@reddit
Traffic cones.
wouldhavebeencool@reddit
Peaches or watermelons
therealDrPraetorius@reddit
Utah grows literally tons of alfalfa for hay that is sold out of state and internationaly.
Ok-Equivalent8260@reddit
Apples (WA)
Drew707@reddit
Answering as Nevada for obvious reasons.
Pinenuts. They are kinda a big deal in Northern Nevada.
chaamdouthere@reddit
Colorado. I would say peaches because the most succulent peaches of my life have been from Colorado. But I think we are probably more known for pot…
Big-Ad4382@reddit
Children. My state has lots and lots of large families.
SisterTalio@reddit
Tobacco, Connecticut
Character-End77@reddit
Apples, wine and Tulips
AggressiveCommand739@reddit
Pima cotton in Arizona. Softer stronger longer lasting and more color absorbing.
Gardennails24@reddit
OR, Hazelnuts
AnymooseProphet@reddit
California, depends upon the part of the state really.
I suspect most people associate California with Almonds but we have all kinds of fruits, figs, garlic, corn, grapes (wine and non-wine), brown rice (really good brown rice), Kiwi, citrus, all kinds of different crops and which is dominant really depends upon the part of the state.
AnnieAcely199@reddit
Citrus (sorry Florida) and cotton.
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
I have never known Arizona to be a citrus growing state.
What do they grow there? I don't think I've ever seen an Arizona orange.
matergallina@reddit
Orange, grapefruits as big as my head literally, lemons…
It’s one of our 5 C’s!
https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/5-ways-to-experience-the-5-cs-of-arizona
TucsonTacos@reddit
If you want to get unique, prickly pear cactus
little_grey_mare@reddit
I'd add alfalfa and pistachios
Xistential0ne@reddit
Wine and Weed er uh grapes and cannabis.
tsukiii@reddit
lol! Very NorCal
nwbrown@reddit
We're kinda well known for tobacco production, but we are also the biggest producer of sweet potatoes by a large margin.
GeekyPassion@reddit
I don't think there are states that dont have crops except maybe Alaska
Ok_Concentrate4461@reddit
There’s one city in Illinois that produces like 90% of the pumpkins in the world.
last-of-the-mohicans@reddit
Colorado has great peaches 🍑
Ultimate_Driving@reddit
North Dakota is not known for sunflowers, but it produces more sunflowers than Kansas, which calls itself the "Sunflower State."
Colorado is not known for peaches, but we grow better peaches here than they do in Georgia.
Crimeariver101@reddit
🌬🤓
Silocin20@reddit
Cotton, and no I'm not in the south.
Fabulous_Lab1287@reddit
Blueberry
Late-Application-47@reddit
The peach might be our state fruit, but peanuts and onions are the main crops in GA.
Turkeyoak@reddit
Northeast Ohio produces a ton of maple syrup.
SciAlexander@reddit
Pennsylvania is the mushroom capitol of the USA
dasmineman@reddit
Mississippi is really good at growing poverty.
GreenBeanTM@reddit
Vermont is Dairy farming, it generates 3/4’s of our state’s agricultural revenue.
zonkman24@reddit
Weed
nocturnalramblings@reddit
I think our Palisade peaches and Rocky Ford cantaloupe are famous locally. Our biggest normal crops are probably hay, corn, and wheat .
SetNo8186@reddit
MO - BEEF. 2d in the nation. Nobody even knows.
Hazel1928@reddit
Pennsylvania- probably corn and Christmas trees.
DoookieMaxx@reddit
I started reading this as “cops” and boy was I ready …but alas, you said crops. Corn. They say there’s more than corn in Indiana. I call bullshit.
Stressed_C@reddit
Different varietys of Apples
TypeOneTypeDone@reddit
Cherries
friendtoallkitties@reddit
Weed. It would be our #1 crop, if it were legal. (Tennessee)
o93mink@reddit
Maryland- crabgrass?
KinsellaStella@reddit
Apparently we produce an exceptional quantity of chickens (broilers, aka for meat).
nothingbuthobbies@reddit
Perdue is huge on the Eastern Shore for a reason. I'm not really sure what the reason is, but I'm sure it exists.
No-Lunch4249@reddit
Maryland used to be famous for Rye and Rye Whiskey
I say we make it so again
Casharoo@reddit
Definitely. Maryland cantaloupe used to be a big thing. I'm not sure if that is still true.
clearly_not_an_alt@reddit
Used to be Tobacco
webfoottedone@reddit
Oregon is the country’s largest producer of hazelnuts and Christmas trees. We also grow a ridiculous amount of weed. It’s cheaper here than most places that have it legalized.
BankManager69420@reddit
We also grow like 90% of the nation’s blackberries, and some studies suggest we grow upwards of 98%.
webfoottedone@reddit
And that is just in my neighbors back yard.
Ok-Aside2816@reddit
Oranges
Objective_Bar_5420@reddit
For Alaska it has to be cannabis. Matanuska Thunder*uck is the stuff of legends.
velociraptorfarmer@reddit
Arizona is either pecans, pistachios, or cotton
BC-K2@reddit
in CA, we got Avocados and weed.
PersonalityFun2025@reddit
Grapes
DarkMagickan@reddit
I don't know if it's well known or not, but we literally invented the marionberry.
parker9832@reddit
Stone and rocks. I live in Connecticut and I swear rocks are the state flower. They just pop up even in beds you have cleared for the last ten years.
Particular_Owl_8029@reddit
tomatoes
Kasegauner@reddit
Illinois grows the most Pumpkins!
makawakatakanaka@reddit
South Carolina - Peaches, we’re the second largest producer behind California. Sorry Georgia
LionelHutzEsqLLP@reddit
Quantity ain't quality, friend. Georgia peaches from a roadside stand are superior.
Marlbey@reddit
Georgia SHOULD be know for peanuts and as a backup pecans and cotton. Neither Georgia peaches, nor Georgia peach production, is particularly special.
Nouseriously@reddit
Tennessee grows lots of weed
Fishtails@reddit
WA.
Apples, hops, grapes.
Angsty_Potatos@reddit
Scrapple?
jub-jub-bird@reddit
If aquaculture counts: clams.
MollyOMalley99@reddit
Until just a couple years ago, was the #1 state for sugarcane. Also #1 for strawberries. Dairy cattle. Tomatoes, peaches, bell peppers.
Plus all kinds of citrus and a six-foot mouse who lives in a giant billion-dollar park in the middle of a swamp.
ColoradoWeasel@reddit
Until you mentioned the mouse, I had no clue what state you were talking about as you did not say and have no user flair. So it’s narrowed down to Florida (probably, due to citrus) or California.
Carbonatite@reddit
I think sugarcane is too water intensive for Cali, even with irrigation. And I don't think they have a ton of stone fruits there either. But lots of citrus and miscellaneous produce from the Imperial Valley (broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc.) Not many swamps though, lol. Unless you count the la Brea tar pits!
Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit
Central Valley, too. Agriculture from top to bottom.
Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit
Disneyland is not in a swamp.
MollyOMalley99@reddit
:) It's Florida.
ColoradoWeasel@reddit
I guess swamp could have given it away too.
Apprehensive-Ant2141@reddit
Rice
Succulent_Roses@reddit
Blueberries.
Willing_Recording222@reddit
Soybeans and field corn - Delaware
SomeDetroitGuy@reddit
All US states do a lot of agriculture except Alaska.
Carinyosa99@reddit
Our state isn't really known for crops, but I think corn is probably the most common.
yikester20@reddit
Kentucky is mainly known for horses/bourbon, so I guess it would be corn. Kentucky is also known for tobacco though…
Last-Radish-9684@reddit
Cotton
chefmeow@reddit
Arkansas- rice!!!! Biggest producer for Anhauser Busch!
BankManager69420@reddit
If you ever eat blackberries, they came from Oregon. We produce over 90% (though some studies suggest upwards of 98%) of blackberries in the US.
We’re also the top producer of Filberts (also known as Hazelnuts) and most grass seed.
ngshafer@reddit
My state is a bit weird, because we're really well known for airplanes and computer programs, but we also have a strong agriculture sector that I think most Americans know about. We're best known for apples, but we also produce a ton of raspberries, hops, and mint.
malibuklw@reddit
Dairy products and apples
garden__gate@reddit
Washington State is the top producer of hops (why we love our IPAs), apples, onions, and blueberries.
Grouchy_Account4760@reddit
Besides mushrooms, Pennsylvania is also a big apple producer and Christmas Trees. Fun little fact--PA does not have an official state fair but instead the PA State Farm Show held in Harrisburg in January. They have a food hall with stands run by all the food producing associations. Two of the most popular stands--the PA Potato Growers where they make baked potatoes (they make fries too but most people get the baked potatoes) and the PA Dairy Association which is known for their milkshakes and their newer item which are breaded cheese cubes.
No-Lunch4249@reddit
Maryland used to be famous for Rye and Rye Whiskey
I say we make it so again
Intelligent_Pop1173@reddit
I’d say we are most known for apples. Upstate of course we have a ton of orchards, and then you have NYC’s nickname the Big Apple. We also produce a lot of milk and are the biggest producer of cream cheese in the country.
larryjrich@reddit
Surprisingly Utah is one of the top exporters of Alfalfa in the country. It generates a lot of controversy though since 80% of the state's water goes to Alfalfa farmers yet we live in the desert and have constant droughts and the rest of us 20% are blamed for it and forced to conserve.
ASingleBraid@reddit
Apples
CountChoculasGhost@reddit
Everyone probably mostly associates Illinois with Chicago.
We also grow a ton of corn and, which is my fun little Illinois trivia, we grow the most pumpkins in the country.
mutantmanifesto@reddit
Is Long Island still known for sweet corn? We seemed to think so as kids. So, corn maybe.
JackYoMeme@reddit
Weed
Building_a_life@reddit
Maryland's biggest agricultural activity is poultry farming. We grow the corn and soy beans used for chicken feed. Also dairy and seasonal horticulture to serve the Baltimore and DC markets.
DrGerbal@reddit
Cotton now I’d think peanuts and some damn good peaches from clanton
Aware-Owl4346@reddit
Apples. Washington state gets all the shine, but we got some decent orchards.
supermuncher60@reddit
For PA it could probably be Mushrooms
Bladvacion@reddit
Chile, NM
Baby_In_A-Trenchcoat@reddit
Michigan- corn and soybeans
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
But are we known for that?
I'd say Cherries.
byamannowdead@reddit
Florida is known for oranges, but there quite a few others that you wouldn’t think of.
In 2023 Florida ranked first in the United States in the value of production Floriculture (plants and trees), Valencia oranges, sugarcane, watermelons, and sweet corn. • Second in value of production for bell peppers, all oranges, strawberries, tomatoes grown in the open, and non-Valencia oranges. • third nationally in cabbage and grapefruit. • ranked fourth nationally in peanuts.
Legic93@reddit
I think we are third for Guava iirc.
Ambitious-Sale3054@reddit
They don’t call one of your towns Plant City for nothing!
Sad-Surround-4778@reddit
Anyone who drives through Illinois things its only soy and corn but its the nations largest horseradish producer.
BoS_Vlad@reddit
Cauliflower
r2k398@reddit
Cotton, corn, or sorghum (for livestock feed)
HistoryGirl23@reddit
Michigan, asparagus
wheresjim@reddit
The state I grew up in is known for tobacco, the state I live in is known for weed
limbodog@reddit
Well, I'm assuming oyster farming doesn't count. So I'd have to go with beans.
ColoradoWeasel@reddit
CO - I live in rural Colorado. The farmers around me tend to grow alfalfa and hay early season. Sometimes sugar beets, corn (sweet corn to eat or silage for the feed lots - lots of cows and sheep around to eat it) and winter wheat for the crop rotation benefit. I’m sure there are other crops, but these seem common.
Carbonatite@reddit
The stone fruit from the western slope is so good!
MarcusAurelius0@reddit
Apples, NY fuckers, Washington can kiss my ass!
drinkdrinkshoesgone@reddit
Its okay to come in second place. We are also 2nd place in raspberry production and I'm okay with that. You guys developing new varieties of apples over there? Yall ever heard of a cosmic crisp?
Plenty-Daikon1121@reddit
We're also one of the largest hop producers in the world. The US produces the most hops in the world, with Washington state contributing to about 70% of that production.
It's also why we have a great beer scene out here!
MarcusAurelius0@reddit
Cosmic Crisp wouldnt exist without NY apples! Heard of a Snap Dragon, it spits on your Coamic Crisp. Cornell called, they want theyre apple growing secrets back.
Carbonatite@reddit
I remember when I learned how important grafting is to apple growth...I had no idea! Very cool.
I remember when honeycrisps were first coming around like...15 years ago. I bought a bag of these random apples from the grocery store for a college trip because it was a huge bag for relatively cheap. They were small, so there were a lot of them to divide up between my fellow Structural Geology students. It was the first time I had gotten a chance to really talk and bond with folks in my tiny major. It was also the first time any of us had tried honeycrisps. I feel like I was known as "the one who brought those good apples on the structural trip" for the next few semesters, lol.
Carbonatite@reddit
As someone who spent a lot of my childhood in New England, I loved the fall because of the upstate NY apple cider products. A jug of fresh cider and those donuts! So good. I miss them.
norecordofwrong@reddit
NH is in the same boat. A shit ton of local farms with wonderful apples and people drive hours to pick them. Yet no love nationwide.
Chambanasfinest@reddit
Ginseng
CarnegieHill@reddit
We used to be known for potatoes, especially on Long Island, before it became suburban...
jephph_@reddit
Apples (though we might be known for that already because of “Big Apple”?)
Blue387@reddit
My parents dragged me to go apple picking with them when I was a kid. I was bored to death.
Carbonatite@reddit
It's one of those activities that parents think their kids will love that ends up getting boring very quickly for children, lol. Dad was from NY and most of my family is there or in New England so I had a lot of berry picking excursions with mom and dad as a child.
jephph_@reddit
Same here. It becomes nostalgic when you’re older though and nothing tops a crisp autumn day up there
CrownStarr@reddit
I know NY for it but only because VA is in the same boat. We’re number 5 in the country for apple production IIRC but no one knows us for it because the market is so dominated by Washington.
Athrynne@reddit
Virginia heirloom apple varieties are so good!
G00dSh0tJans0n@reddit
North Carolina used to be famous for tobacco. It’s pretty rare that I see any these days there but the regulars where I grew up in rural N.C. was a rotation of corn, soy, and cotton.
Guernica616@reddit
We are the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the US. We grow a lot of Christmas trees too in the mountains.
G00dSh0tJans0n@reddit
I need to find out where the sweet potatoes are grown because I never see any, but I grew up in central NC so the corn/soy/cotton rotation was by far the most common.
Carbonatite@reddit
I don't know if they're super common in Idaho, but when I lived there the potatoes in the stores were all MASSIVE compared to everywhere else I lived. The sweet potatoes were quite literally multiple meals in a single potato. Just huge, like cassava root sized.
Yukon golds? Maybe a few inches long in the rest of the country, but the size of a typical Russet potato in ID grocery stores.
Actual Russet potatoes were fuckin massive, like I could not eat one in a single sitting. Probably twice as big as I was used to.
Yams? All of them were like 10" long. I cut them into thirds to get multiple meals out of them, fuckin huge.
Peruvian purple potatoes? Instead of the little nuggets we see in the grocery stores most of the time, they were substantial tubers, the size of a respectable Yukon gold.
Plus just a huge variety. Like 3-4 kinds of yams/sweet potatoes. Orange ones, red ones, white ones, Ube yams. I feel like Bubba from Forrest Gump now talking about shrimp, lol. But the potatoes in Idaho really are absurd.
eightcarpileup@reddit
It’s very possible that you mistook the soybeans for sweet potatoes. They both grow as short bushes.
G00dSh0tJans0n@reddit
In central NC it was for sure soy. The fields where on two sides of my parents property so I'd watch them harvest it. I would imagine sweet potato might be more coastal plain crop, like tobacco is today as well.
eightcarpileup@reddit
Shoutout Boone’s booming Christmas tree farms.
QuietVisit2042@reddit
NJ: corn, peaches, cranberries
daffodil0127@reddit
My state is “famous” for growing the tobacco leaves they use for rolling cigars.
OfficeChair70@reddit
Alfalfa
GandalfTheShmexy@reddit
Oregon produces 12 million pounds of marijuana per year, with a pop of only 4 million
The-Dragon_Queen@reddit
We produce more humans than any other state. We don’t have room for crops and the room we do have, no vegetation will survive.
Half joking, we have the occasional crops but mostly just to produce oils, not food.
Ambitious-Sale3054@reddit
Though we are known as the peach state we are the largest producer of peanuts and broilers(meat chicken) in the states. We also produce a significant amount of cotton,pecans,blueberries,watermelons,cucumbers,sweet corn and field corn,bell peppers,squash,tomatoes,apples and cabbage. Love me some fresh verges!
chas31av@reddit
Hay from Colorado
ColoradoWeasel@reddit
Palisade Peaches on the Western Slope.
MamaPajamaMama@reddit
Yup, peaches was going to be my answer. And Loveland (the city, not the ski area) is known for cherries.
TricksyGoose@reddit
Does weed count?
zRustyShackleford@reddit
Sugar beets and canola
bluecifer7@reddit
Pueblo chiles, Palisade peaches, Rocky Ford cantaloupes maybe?
or perhaps...a crop of the greener, more pungent variety
CarmenDeeJay@reddit
Wild rice...it's even our official state grain. Wild rice isn't even rice; it's a grass seed.
ATLien_3000@reddit
Every state has some level of agriculture.
In any number of states (including some where it remains illegal), the (sometimes inconvenient) truth is that the number one cash crop is marijuana.
Specialist-Solid-987@reddit
Beef
floofienewfie@reddit
Logs. Oh, and we grow corn, peaches, cranberries, pears, potatoes, onions, cherries, berries, and other fun stuff. Right now I’m buying fresh corn and green beans and freezing it so there’s plenty of fresh veg in the winter.
PvtDipwad@reddit
Grapes for sure
ca77ywumpus@reddit
Illinois has corn. So. Much. corn. And pigs.
Intestinal-Bookworms@reddit
Arkansas’s not famous for much, but we are the largest rice producer in the country.
paka96819@reddit
Corn seeds
dgrigg1980@reddit
Weed
Yankee_chef_nen@reddit
Not a lot f people outside of northern New England know about Maine potatoes, because of the inferior Idaho potato marketing.
redwolf1219@reddit
Apparently Tennessee's largest crop is soybeans, so that.
Appropriate_Ice2656@reddit
All of them.
(I’m from California.)
Any59oh@reddit
Well, Ohio is known for corn but its biggest crop is actually soybeans so 🤷🏼
Minnow_Minnow_Pea@reddit
We grow pretty good weed too.
LuckyNerve@reddit
Georgia peaches! Also Vidalia onions and peanuts.
DaneLimmish@reddit
Corn and it turns out, mushrooms.
spaltavian@reddit
Maryland was very famous for tobacco at one point. Now it would probably be tomatoes or corn.
UzbekNugget@reddit
Cranberries
excessively314@reddit
Missouri already has a reputation but you’ll have to pry our soy beans from our cold dead hands & then show it to us.
PhysicsEagle@reddit
Oil is a sort of crop
evil_burrito@reddit
Oregon grows lots of hay and carrot seeds.
Cheston1977@reddit
And 99% of all hazelnuts in the US, though they're only grown in one area of the state.
leahish@reddit
Not a crop per say but poultry/eggs is the biggest commodity.
The biggest crop is soy beans!
Yay for Mississippi.
TinyRandomLady@reddit
Wheat! It sure smells sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain! 🤠 Oklahoma!
TacosNGuns@reddit
All US states grow crops. I image Alaska grows the least due to a short growing season and small population.
Appollo64@reddit
Missouri should be more well known for wine and grape stock production. Missouri was the first designated viticultural area in the US, and Missouri rootstock is used in many old world wineries for its worst resistance.
nietheo@reddit
Where I grew up (near Detroit) was one known as the "Hothouse Rhubarb Capital of the World", but you'd have never known that by the time I came along. I suspect it secretly triggered my love for the stuff.
Traditional-Ad-8737@reddit
New Hampshire here: Granite rocks. I mean they are everywhere, and we have some wicked nice stonewalls to prove it. They multiply and will poke out through your asphalt driveway and roads with the frost heaves in winter too
TipsyBaker_@reddit
For 3 different states I've lived in
Meth
Affectionate_Big8239@reddit
Grapes! Pennsylvania. We grow a bunch of grapes for Welch’s (NY does too) in addition to our pretty vibrant wine industry that’s not too well known outside of the state.
RoryDragonsbane@reddit
Pennsylvania - Mushrooms
Pennsylvania has a near monopoly on mushroom production, yearly harvesting 408.4 million out of a total 490.9 million in the US (California produces 82.5M)
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/mushroom-production-by-state
Cicada_Killer@reddit
Texas has a lot of different climates. Where I am it would be peaches and watermelons
g-burn@reddit
Not counting ignoring all the grain and alfalfa production in the eastern half of our state, Colorado grows some god-tier peaches. I look forward to Palisade peach season every year.
HurtsCauseItMatters@reddit
My birth state is *full* of Agriculture. I'm not sure its known nationally for any of it.
Soybeans, Corn, Sugar Cane, rice. If you add non-crop agriculture it would add chicken farms, cattle, seafood. I could even go so far as to separate these by north and south louisiana if needed.
If its *known* for anything it should probably be Sugarcane and Rice. The sugarcane industry in Louisiana even has a theme song 😀 If we're including all agriculture not just crops, I'd extend the nationally known bit to the seafood industry.
Tacoshortage@reddit
Louisiana is corn and sugarcane.
cbrooks97@reddit
I'm always surprised by the amount of cotton you see in West Texas.
Sleepygirl57@reddit
Well my ex husbands grandma used to deliver moonshine in her lunch bucket on the way to school.
voteblue18@reddit
Taylor Ham.
Apprehensive_Yard_14@reddit
Back in the day, it was tobacco. Then it was Silver Queen Corn. But now many states grow that corn, so it's not the big deal anymore. We still love that corn, and the only corn many of us eats.
Rhine1906@reddit
You could just lie about it like we do!
dildozer10@reddit
Peanuts and cotton
whitMartin@reddit
Apples
holymacaroley@reddit
Tobacco. Or it used to be, I'm not sure if that's slowed down as fewer people smoke.
AlabasterPelican@reddit
Soy beans, rice, sugarcane
krittyyyyy@reddit
Tobacco
Pitiful_Bunch_2290@reddit
Beer?
Hot_Car6476@reddit
New York - apples.
Conveniently - The Big Apple.
FunImprovement166@reddit
Ramps
norecordofwrong@reddit
Didn’t realize they were that far south. They’ve always been a New England thing to me.
Federal-Membership-1@reddit
New Jersey-blueberries. There's a scene in Boardwalk Empire where they drive through Hammonton-Blueberry Capial of the World
MoonieNine@reddit
Wheat, hay, barley. We're mostly known for our cattle ranches. We have more cattle than people.
Penguin_Life_Now@reddit
I'm from Louisiana, the southern coastal region of the state is mostly known for Sugar Cane, just inland of this region we have Rice with Soy Bean and Cotton being the prime crop in much of the central and northern part of the state.
Expensive-Shame@reddit
New Jersey (where I grew up) - despite being the most densely populated state, they still have a lot of farms. Their tomatoes are well-known and used in a lot of the restaurants in NYC and Philly.