Agriculture in the Third District: Fertile Fields Outside the Farm Belt.(Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware)(Statistical Data Included)

From: Business Review (Federal Reserve Bank ofPhiladelphia) | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: Schiller, Timothy | Copyright information

The large, diversified nature of the Third District economy sometimes obscures the importance of its farm sector. The tri-state region (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware) is not part of the nation's agricultural heartland and does not supply a large percentage of the total agricultural production of the United States. However, the region does supply a significant percentage of some commodities, and in some parts of the region, agriculture is a significant part of the local eco...

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