This year I paid special attention to the Iowa caucus. When my husband, Ned, 51MA, and I were newlyweds, we were sorting out music that had belonged to his mother. Oh Iowa girl of mine. Some 20 or more years ago, a U.S. map was printed in SUI publications, showing the contribution of Iowa to the total agricultural production of the U.S. It showed, to scale, that Iowa, not ADM, was supermarket to the world. We have not created a map, but, thanks to clippings Mr Dowd shared with us from the Fort Dodge Messenger , we have made available 1998 statistics on the top states' agricultural rankings.
Amounts are in millions of dollars and exclude payments for weather-related crop losses.
Number of Farms 1. 34 million 10.