# Crops grown almost exclusively in one state (except CA and HI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426 "2025-09-27T11:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/41 "2025-09-28T21:45:32Z")
Hand melons – a particular variety of cantaloupe – are only produced at one farm in Greenwich, NY. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/42 "2025-09-28T21:53:03Z")
California grows 99% (you read that right: NINETY-NINE PERCENT!) of the nation’s pistachios. [New DNA Map of the Pistachio Could Create Better Varieties | UC Davis](https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/cracking-code-pistachio-genetics#:~:text=California%20produces%2099%25%20of%20the,economic%20value%20in%20the%20state). ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/43 "2025-09-28T23:38:40Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > In New Mexico the term green chile refers to the Hatch variety. Hatch is a regional designation (not that we really do much of that here.). The cultivar group is New Mexico, with many cultivars, some grown in the Hatch Valley and elsewhere, some not. IME “Hatch” is a marketing gimmick for the rest of the country; nobody here cares. Grow a NuMex Big Jim in Hatch? That’s a Hatch chili. Grow it Anthony? It’s not. They go in the same bin at the grocery store in Las Cruces. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/44 "2025-09-29T10:56:22Z")
Okay - ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/45 "2025-10-09T13:58:02Z")
Minnesota is the top global producer of cultivated wild rice. It also has more acres of natural wild rice than any other state. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/46 "2025-11-03T01:02:55Z")
Vidalia onions can only be grown in one specific area centered on Vidalia, GA. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/47 "2025-11-03T01:14:54Z")
See post 28. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/48 "2025-11-03T01:24:06Z")
Pierce County, Washington grows 90% of America’s rhubarb (at least the variety that’s sold commercially and eaten). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/49 "2025-11-03T02:15:20Z")
North Dakota grows about 85% of the nation’s canola (a.k.a. the unfortunately-named rapeseed), great news for people who find olive oil too “fancy.” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/50 "2025-11-06T13:05:55Z")
If you narrow it to pumpkins for canned production, Illinois has 90% of them. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426/51 "2025-11-06T14:36:33Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > This is not a crop, but since it’s interesting I’ll mention that venus flytraps only grow in a small part of North Carolina. But commercially available Venus fly traps come from nurseries all over the country, including California and Colorado. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crops-grown-almost-exclusively-in-one-state-except-ca-and-hi/1023426.md?page=2)