U.S. 农业 - statistics & 事实

贸易 of agricultural goods

The United States is a major player in the global trade of agricultural products. In 2020, exports of agricultural products were worth some 164 billion U.S. 美元. The most important countries of destination were China, Canada, and Mexico. 相反, 进口 worth around 130.20亿U.S. 美元 made their way into the United States that same year. The principal countries/regions of origin were Canada, the European Union, and Mexico.

Agricultural production

Farming also involves significant production costs, increasing steadily year after year. A closer look at the 作文 of these costs shows that feed made up the largest share, followed by costs associated with farm services, livestock and poultry. Labor accounted for just 10 percent of farm expenditure in the U.S. in 2020.

Farming and 农田

Over the last decade, the issue of genetic engineering has increasingly been on the agenda. The United States has by far the highest acreage of genetically modified crops 在世界范围内. Some crops have a very high share of 转基因作物 每一个物种. For example in 2020, some 94 percent of all soybeans planted in the U.S. were genetically modified so as to be herbicide tolerant.

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