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Strawberry field in Florida before 1913. Strawberry is a major fruit crop in Florida. [1] [2] Florida is second only to California for strawberry production by volume and by dollars per year [1] [2] and the Plant City area grows 3 ⁄ 4 of America's winter strawberries. [1]
V. 9- 1953- issued in cooperation with U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service Issuing office varies: v. 9- 1953- Florida. Crop and Livestock Reporting Service Drops no. with 1962. Beginning 1962, supersedes in part Florida. Dept. of Agriculture. State Marketing Bureau. Annual agricultural statistical summary (280.39 F662A)
Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.The methods of industrial agriculture include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the ...
Nitrogen fertilizers and synthetic products, such as urea and ammonium nitrate, are mainstays of industrial agriculture, and are essential to the nourishment of at least two billion people. [10] [13] Industrial facilities using the Haber process and its analogues have a significant ecological impact. Half of the nitrogen in the great quantities ...
A history of agricultural policy : chronological outline ( U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1992) online; Ardrey, Robert L, American agricultural implements: a review of invention and development in the agricultural implement industry of the United States (1894) online; a major comprehensive overview in 236 pages.
Confronting these environmental challenges, Florida's agricultural sector—which plays an integral role in the state's economy and food supply—is at an inflection point.
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.
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