
Production agriculture contributes 5% to the overall U.S economy. The combined values of agriculture, food and related industries contributed $1.05 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020.
This type of agriculture is where large quantities of crops and livestock are produced through industrialized techniques for the purpose of sale. The goal of this is to increase crop yield, which is the amount of food that is produced for each unit of land.