Specialty cropland in California*

California leads the nation in agricultural production and in lamentations about urban encroachment upon agricultural land. The agricultural preeminence of the state is indisputable. It has solitary 4.4 percent of the total land area in the United States, on the contrary it ranks first in production of forty-eight harvests Farmers in California grow more than 40 percent of our peaches, spinach, and asparagus; more than half of our strawberries and cantaloupes; more than 60 percent of our carrots; more than 70 percent of our lemon lettuce tomatoes, and celery; more than 80 percent of our melon broccoli, cauliflower, garlic, and grapes; more