What do consider an odd crop grown in your state?

Question

PA - mushrooms (grown in mushroom mines)

Answer 1

Ramps are grown in Tennessee

Answer 2

Tea in South Carolina the only place in North America.

Answer 3

Kentucky is trying to become a big beef producing state. The gov first payed everybody to quit milking so about everybody did! Now milk is 4.00+ a gallon! Now they paid everybody to stop raising tobacco, who knows where that will go! (I still raise 20 acers) so tobacco will soon be the odd crop!

Answer 4

KY- Kentucky Bluegrass

Answer 5

Medical Marijuana grown at the Univ. of Mississippi

Answer 6

We grow almost everything here in CA. I will have to say pluots (cross between plum and apricot). Or prunes, even better.

Answer 7

Texas grows mung beans . . .

Answer 8

Well, my answer is the same as John's.  

Kentucky Bluegrass....however I live in Idaho, high mountain desert, at 4700 feet, in the very heart of potato country.

Kentucky Bluegrass was a good cash crop here, until this year.  They made it illegal to burn off stuble.  Kentucky Bluegrass MUST be shocked by burning, in order to produce a seed crop the next year...otherwise all you have is lawn.  Needless to say it will no longer be grown in Idaho.

So I guess I'm going to have to go with sugar beets.  I'm suprised at how many miles of land are planted in sugar beets around here.  

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 9

Tobacco in Illinois.

Answer 10

Here in Wisconsin we grow (and  eat) cheese curds.  Cheese curds are little irregularly shaped bits of cheese.  They are usually sold raw in plasic bags.  When you bite into them they squeak.  Cheese curds are also sold here as a fast food menu item side dish.  These cheese curds are breaded and fried.  Some of these are cheddar, some are mozzarela.  Culvers sells a mix of both together.  I am sure they are extremely bad for you health-wise but they are very tasty!  Go Packers!

Answer 11

Around here there is currently a big interest in extremely ugly gourds.

For fall decorations people are paying high prices for all kinds of weirdly-twisted and strangely colored cucurbits. If it is purple and shaped like an octopus you could make a fortune selling it.

Answer 12

Illegals and freeways are grown here in AZ!  

Actually now that all the dang housing developers are buying every inch of land here in the valley I have no clue! Used to be citrus groves were everywhere. Prickly pears for jelly, peppers of all sorts, palm trees...