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Covering over 32% of the states' landmass, agriculture is the largest single industry in Virginia. In recent years soybeans and corn have passed tobacco as Virginia's main cash crop (though Virginia remains fourth on the list of tobacco growing states in the US). Virginia ranks 20th out of the fifty states in soybean production yielding approximately $136 million in 2008.
The major cash crop in the early days of Virginia was tobacco. Tobacco leaves are painted on the ceiling of the State Capitol. Cotton was a minor crop is the Southern part of Virginia, and corn, wheat, oats and barley were also grown- but tobacco was the money crop.
The different types of crops grown in Virginia are soybeans, corn, wheat, apples and peaches. Tobacco is now Virginia's third ranked cash crop.
Tobacco and corn were the most important cash crops, although beans and squash were also grown.
The crops in the South were cash crops and crops in the North were consumable crops.
The southern colonies were good for farming because it was humid out.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia that was anti-slavery, so they created a border and West Virginia joined the Union.