The California Department of Food and Agriculture is posting on its website that in 2019, California’s farms and ranches received more than $50 billion in cash receipts for their output.
This represents a slight increase over reported cash receipts for 2018.
California’s agricultural abundance includes more than 400 commodities.
Over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California.
California is the leading US state for cash farm receipts, accounting for over 13 percent of the nation’s total agricultural value.
The top producing commodities for 2019 include:
- Dairy Products, Milk — $7.34 billion
- Almonds — $6.09 billion
- Grapes — $5.41 billion
- Cattle and Calves — $3.06 billion
- Strawberries — $2.22 billion
- Pistachios — $1.94 billion
- Lettuce — $1.82 billion
- Walnuts — $1.29 billion
- Floriculture — $1.22 billion
- Tomatoes — $1.17 billion
