ATLANTA may sprawl, but drive a little way south or east and head off the main highways, and you will see that what really powers Georgia is not its biggest city, but its farms. Agriculture is the state's biggest industry, employing 13% of the state workforce, and generating $11 billion a year at the farm level and $69 billion overall. In 2008 Georgia produced more broiler chickens, peanuts, pecans, rye and spring-harvested onions than any other state.
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