3.9 billion pounds of watermelon are produced yearly in the US.
958 million pounds coming from Florida.
24.6% of all US watermelon.
80% comes from four states, which are Florida, Georgia, Texas and California.
15.1 billion bushels of corn are produced yearly in the US.
A bushel being 64 pints.
2.3 billion bushels came from Iowa.
15.2% of all corn.
50% of all corn produced in the US comes from Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota.
11.4 billion pounds of apples are produced yearly in the US.
5.4 billion pounds were grown in Washington, for 47% of production.
Michigan and New York also both grow over a billion pounds of apple’s yearly, making up about 70% of US supply.
What is the point of these facts?
A lot of the time the US seems divided over some pretty big issues and it feels like every election, vote in congress and now court decision, there’s this insane conversation of breaking up US states.
Looking at Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe pre the EU, a lot of goods as simple as fruit are or were extremely difficult to get, due to laws in place over borders and trade restrictions.
The US has this massive advantage being a country of 330 million people with 2.4 billion acres of land, which makes it possible to get nearly unlimited access to almost any vegetable, fruit, mineral, fuel source or animal needed.
Other parts of the world don’t have this and if the US was ever split, it’d be likely someone in New York couldn’t eat watermelon and a person in Florida couldn’t eat corn.