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.
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 | -1.75 to -1.5 | -1.5 to -1.25 | -1.25 to -1.0 | -1.0 to -0.75 | -0.5 to -0.25 | -0.25 to 0.25 | 0.5 to 0.75 | Phosphate Mines | |
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Arizona | 55.8% | 1.74% | |||||||||||||||
District of Columbia | 93.5% | 6.49% | |||||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 94.9% | 5.10% | |||||||||||||||
Vermont | 99.4% | ||||||||||||||||
North Dakota | 97.2% | 2.79% | |||||||||||||||
Kentucky | 4.50% | 95.5% | |||||||||||||||
Saskatchewan | 44.8% | ||||||||||||||||
Mississippi | 100% | ||||||||||||||||
West Virginia | 2.88% | 97.1% | |||||||||||||||
Nebraska | 46.2% | 15.2% | 29.5% | 3.16% | 1.83% | ||||||||||||
Missouri | 12.6% | 41.5% | 45.8% | ||||||||||||||
Oregon | 10.4% | 1.98% | 53.5% | 1.61% | |||||||||||||
New Mexico | 1.35% | 94.7% | 1.16% | ||||||||||||||
Kansas | 20.9% | 64.6% | 5.63% | 8.39% | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin | 3.92% | 95.5% | |||||||||||||||
South Carolina | 99.9% | ||||||||||||||||
Michigan | 5.98% | 64.0% | |||||||||||||||
Alberta | 14.2% | 16.7% | 1.37% | ||||||||||||||
Connecticut | 99.9% | ||||||||||||||||
Colorado | 17.8% | 67.2% | 9.64% | 3.65% | |||||||||||||
Nevada | 95.3% | ||||||||||||||||
Georgia | 99.9% | ||||||||||||||||
Manitoba | 14.1% | 4.24% | |||||||||||||||
Oklahoma | 67.7% | 1.43% | 15.1% | 9.41% | 6.32% | ||||||||||||
Ontario | 1.82% | 8.82% | 2.80% | ||||||||||||||
Arkansas | 74.6% | 7.82% | 2.70% | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 25.4% | 18.2% | 56.3% | ||||||||||||||
Indiana | 67.6% | 32.4% | |||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 17.0% | 7.67% | 56.4% | ||||||||||||||
Illinois | 1.38% | 89.2% | 2.58% | 6.84% | |||||||||||||
Alaska | 0.230% | ||||||||||||||||
Rhode Island | 3.91% | 4.64% | |||||||||||||||
Washington | 2.54% | 6.88% | 28.9% | 1.54% | 0.523% | ||||||||||||
Nunavut | 0.349% | ||||||||||||||||
Maine | 11.2% | 78.0% | 10.3% | 0.133% | |||||||||||||
Nova Scotia | 36.7% | 19.0% | 0.869% | ||||||||||||||
Virginia | 1.66% | 7.48% | 37.3% | 0.126% | |||||||||||||
Delaware | 99.2% | 0.762% | |||||||||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 98.5% | 1.45% | |||||||||||||||
Hawaii | 2.11% | 0.444% | 1.11% | 0.206% | 0.177% | 1.57% | |||||||||||
New Brunswick | 4.59% | 69.9% | 15.9% | 9.03% | 0.522% | ||||||||||||
British Columbia | 0.181% | ||||||||||||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.356% | ||||||||||||||||
New Jersey | 65.3% | 34.4% | 0.329% | ||||||||||||||
Massachusetts | 98.2% | 1.78% | |||||||||||||||
New York | 2.90% | 6.80% | 0.105% | ||||||||||||||
Maryland | 35.0% | 33.2% | 11.4% | 0.874% | |||||||||||||
Québec | 1.00% | 1.28% | 0.107% | ||||||||||||||
Utah | 80.7% | 5.63% | 1.50% | 7 | |||||||||||||
Florida | 52.7% | 0.528% | 40 | ||||||||||||||
Idaho | 80.1% | 1.68% | 3.82% | 6 | |||||||||||||
Wyoming | 95.3% | 3.25% | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Montana | 13.8% | 79.9% | 1.03% | 12 | |||||||||||||
Texas | 45.6% | 41.0% | 1.75% | 0.183% | 5 | ||||||||||||
Louisiana | 98.0% | 1.56% | 0.120% | 4 | |||||||||||||
North Carolina | 83.7% | 16.0% | 0.319% | 3 | |||||||||||||
Alabama | 100% | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Pennsylvania | 1.55% | 88.8% | 9.67% | 1 | |||||||||||||
Tennessee | 42.6% | 57.4% | 30 | ||||||||||||||
California | 30.0% | 2.07% | 42.1% | 4.51% | 0.105% | 2 | |||||||||||
Ohio | 12.6% | 39.3% | 48.1% | 1 | |||||||||||||
Iowa | 99.5% | 1 | |||||||||||||||