California AG
California’s highest-value agricultural commodity in 2024
What is Dairy/Milk
Sakata reports approximately 65% of the global seed market for this vegetable
What is broccoli?
This irrigation component traps particles before they can clog drip emitters.
What is a filter?
Through this process, plants use light energy to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis?
This traditional Thanksgiving bird shares its name with a country.
What is a turkey?
These nuts ranked second among California’s agricultural commodities by value in 2024.
What are almonds?
these vegetables ranked second in Sakata’s North and Central American vegetable seed sales in 2025.
What are peppers?
When measuring irrigation flow, GPM stands for this.
What are gallons per minute?
This green pigment helps plants absorb light for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This tart red berry appears at Thanksgiving as a sauce—sometimes still shaped like its can.
What is a cranberry?
Wine, raisins, and fresh fruit all start with this crop, California’s third-highest-value commodity in 2024.
What are grapes?
This large, juicy picnic fruit ranked third in Sakata’s North and Central American vegetable seed sales in 2025.
What is watermelon?
An irrigation gauge reading in PSI is measuring this property.
What is pressure?
These tiny openings on leaves regulate gas exchange and water loss.
What are stomata?
This orange member of the squash family is used for a classic Thanksgiving pie and Halloween jack-o’-lanterns.
What is a pumpkin?
This crop ranked fifth among California’s agricultural commodities by value in 2024.
What is lettuce?
Sakata reports approximately 80% of the global seed market for
Flowers (lisianthus)
One acre contains this many square feet.
What are 43,560 square feet?
This vascular tissue carries water and dissolved minerals from a plant’s roots toward its shoots.
What is xylem?
The edible orange portion of a sweet potato is this type of plant organ: a root, stem, leaf, or fruit.
What is a root? More specifically, a storage root.
This livestock category ranked fourth in California in 2024, with a value of approximately $4.98 billion.
What are cattle?
This combined crop category ranked fifth in Sakata’s North and Central American vegetable seed sales in 2025. (Fall Crop)
What are pumpkins and squash?
One cubic foot per second equals approximately this many gallons per minute. Answer within 10 GPM.
What is 448.8 GPM? Accept answers within 10 GPM.
Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, and Brussels sprouts are cultivated forms of this species. Give its scientific name.
What is Brassica oleracea?
This U.S. president issued the October 3, 1863 proclamation calling for a national Thanksgiving observance.
Who is Mr. Abraham Lincoln?