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| | Fresno County Agriculture - # 1 for 46 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Fresno County boasts about its 7,500 farmers growing crops on more than 1 million irrigated acres and grossing over 3 billion dollars. |
 | | It is currently the number one agricultural county in the world, and has been number one in California for over 46 years (since 1952). |
 | | Today, Fresno is number one in the production (in California) of grapes, cotton lint, processing/fresh market tomatoes, peaches, turkeys, cattle calves*, sheep lambs*, poultry*, plums, nectarines, cantaloupes, garlic, cottonseed, sweet corn, alfalfa seed, honeydews, dry beans*, pomegranate*, Asian Pears*, persimmons*, and many specialty vegetables (1998 Ag Commissioners report, summary) (*1997). |
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