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Then there's California, arguably North America's current agricultural leader.
by kenhwang 5y ago
Then there's California, arguably North America's current agricultural leader.
- vkou 5y agoCalifornia isn't rich because of agriculture. It's a rich state that happens to do some agriculture.
- systemBuilder 5y agoIllinois is 100% agriculture. All the tech from Schaumburg and Naperville (W. Chicago) has been hollowed out. It's still relatively rich as a state ... You are forgetting that until recently in Brazil the USA had double the agricultural productivity of any place else on Earth...
- refurb 5y agoChicago GDP = $619B IL GDP = $897B Agriculture is a small fraction of what IL produces.