Eight of the top 10 agricultural counties are in California.

County Farm Receipts, 2000

Fresno Tulare Monterey Kern Merced San Joaquin San Diego Stanislaus

$3.4 billion $3.1 billion $2.9 billion $2.2 billion $1.5 billion $1.3 billion $1.3 billion $1.2 billion

[Tulare passed Fresno in 2001.]

(Weld County in Colorado and Yakima, Washington, were the two non-California locales in the top 10.)

source: 1997 Census of Agriculture