“Peanuts are the most popular snack food in America.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

“‘Century Farms’ are farms that have been operating 100 years or more. Virginia has 1,000 recognized Century Farms.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

“A Jamaican farmer named grapefruit when he noticed the fruit grew in clusters like grapes.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

“The origin of apricots is unknown, but Alexander the Great introduced the fruit to Greece. In the 1700s, English and Spanish settlers brought apricots to North America.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

“It takes about 400 cacao beans to produce one pound of chocolate. The average American consumes about 12 pounds per year. Very few US locations have a climate that can sustain commercial production of cacao beans.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

“About 99 percent of the pistachios produced in the United States come from California. The remainder are grown in Arizona and New Mexico.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

“Egyptians were raising fish more than 4,000 years ago. Today, Washington, Mississippi, and Alabama are the country’s top producing states for aquaculture.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

Nearly 21,000 US jobs are related to mushroom farming. Close to half of those jobs are in Pennsylvania. ~ American Agriculture Facts

“Several vegetables grown in Alaska hold world records, including a 127-pound cabbage.” ~ American Agriculture Facts

Commercially produced figs are self-pollinating, but wild figs are pollinated by wasps. ~ American Agriculture Facts