There are 10,159 organic farms in the US ((Or there were in 2007, the date of the most recent agricultural census.)) and, unlike farms in general, they are distributed around the country in a series of distinct hotspots. I know this because the NY Times did its usual wondeful graphics number on the USDA’s numbers. I wonder what Paul Krugman would have to say about these particular business clusters.
LATER: Oops, too fast on the old “Publish” button. If I’d waited to go live with the above until after browsing through my feed reader, I could have added that Food & Water Watch have a complementary map of factory farms in the US. Which I found out about via a story in the Atlantic Food Channel that was actually about something different, the global provenance of food.
LATER STILL: Alas, the map of organic farm distribution bears more than a passing resemblance to that for greed. Kinda.
