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Agriculture in the United States

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US Careers Online - Agriculture Technology

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Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Careers | Career Cluster/Industry Video Series

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Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers Career Video

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Growing Season - Careers in Agriculture

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Agricultural science careers - A day in the work life of an agricultural field representative

Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food. As of the 2007 census of agriculture, there were 2.2 million farms, covering an area of 922 million acres (3,730,000 km2), an average of 418 acres per farm. Although agricultural activity occurs in every state in the union, it is particularly concentrated in the Great Plains, a vast expanse of flat, arable land in the center of the nation in the region around the Great Lakes known as the Corn Belt.