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Agricultural Regions

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Agricultural regions of North America

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A map highlights various agricultural regions across North America using a high-contrast color scheme.

The regions are classified as follows: Red color represents specialty crop or livestock farming, found in Portland, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Blue color represents mixed farming, prominent in regions of Omaha, and Saint Louis. Purple color represents commercial wheat and other small grain farming, covering large areas of the central United States, North Dakota, and southern parts of Canada. Orange color represents dairy farming, concentrated in the northeastern United States, including New York, and parts of the Midwest. Yellow color represents general farming, seen in Cincinnati, Missouri, Edmonton, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, and Charlottetown. Green color represents livestock ranching predominantly in the western United States, including areas of Texas. Boise, Nevada, Idaho, Helena, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Denver, Utah and New Mexico. Brown color represents irrigated agriculture, located in specific regions of the western United States. Pink color represents Mediterranean agriculture (with irrigation), specific to regions like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Gray color represents nonfarming areas, covering vast stretches of the western United States.

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Agricultural Regions

Agricultural Water Consumption

Specialty crop or livestock farming

Mixed farming

Commercial wheat and other small grain farming

Dairy farming

General farming

Livestock ranching

Irrigated agriculture

Mediterranean agriculture (with irrigation)

Nonfarming

Class

Rank

Percent

43.3%21.9%22.8%19.7%16.2%48.0%3.25%42.1%2.53%
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