What are the characteristics of American agriculture?

1. "Agricultural country" has a long history and tradition of the United States as a country of immigrants, only two hundred years of history, but its Department of Agriculture in the year than 62 years when the establishment of the Department of the emblem on the writing, "agriculture is the foundation of manufacturing and commerce. The U.S. relies on its unique conditions, and on the other hand, focus on the role of agricultural science and technology, agriculture has been an important economic pillar of the country. With the development of industry, the proportion of agriculture in the U.S. economy is gradually declining, but the government has adopted a policy of support and protection of agriculture, so that agriculture has become the most competitive industry in the world.

2. Highly commercialized family farms as the basis of the United States in 1826 formulated the "Homestead Act", laid the foundation for family farms. 1994, the United States has 2.04 million farms, the average size of its 193.4 hectares; agricultural labor force of 2.52 million people, accounting for 2% of the total national labor force. The number of "corporate farms" is now on the rise, with about 70,000, accounting for a larger share of farmland and sales. However, the foundation of the corporate farm remains the family farm. United States agriculture is highly commercialized and greatly influenced by market supply and demand. Its grain production capacity exceeds 350 million tons, but because of overproduction, the government implements production restrictions (according to the contract signed between the government and farmers, the total area of fallow farmland in 1995 was 14.74 million hectares), and the impact of the weather, some years less than 300 million tons.

3. Agricultural specialization is very high The United States formed some famous production belt, such as corn belt, wheat belt, cotton belt and so on. As early as 1914, U.S. agriculture has to a large extent to realize the planting of specialization, this pattern remains to this day. This regional division of labor allows each region of the United States to fully utilize their respective comparative advantages, which is conducive to reducing costs and increasing productivity. The establishment of a smooth surface transportation network more progress to promote the regional division of labor specialization, and the regional division of labor and specialization of production is also a strong impetus to the development of related industries in nearby areas.

4. Agricultural production and marketing to achieve "from field to table" of the body