Once again I'm reminded the pictures in my mind (as Walter Lippman once put it) don't match the reality of agriculture in the U.S. Nor, I'd guess, do the pictures in your mind.
Which county in the US has the most farms, do you think? Some place in Illinois or Iowa?
How about San Diego? At least that's their claim on their publication here. 6,687 farms. The median size is less than 5 acres. But their acreage of field crops has about doubled in the last 10 years.
It's a big country with lots of variety, which we all tend to forget in favor of simple positions.
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