In The Long Run

Greenhouse and Nursery Industry Cash Receipts Growing Rapidly

In terms of cash receipts, the U.S. greenhouse and nursery industry has experienced rapid growth in the last three decades at a rate morethan four times that experienced by all agricultural commodities. These trends have been the result of the relocation of both businessesand residences to suburban settings and the concurrent explosive growth in population in the South and West. This combination has generateddemand for attractive vegetation and expansive areas of lawn with sod as the preferred ground cover. The top-producing States havealways been California and Florida over this time period, and other States in the top five have remained the same since about 1990 whenOregon passed Ohio to enter the group.

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