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FALLBROOK — Of more than 4,000 counties in the business, San Diego County is the 12th largest agricultural producing county in the United States, stated Eric Larson, executive director of the San Diego County Farm Bureau, during a recent meeting of the Fallbrook Village Rotary Club.

The county, he added, is the single largest producer of nursery plants in the US, representing 66 percent of the country’s total agricultural sales. The odd combination is that San Diego is also the seventh largest urban county in the US.

The key features that allow San Diego’s agriculture business to fl...