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1. Major agricultural areas 2.2_1 Major agricultural areas fruit and vineyards in the Pacific states; and livestock herds in the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain states. 2. Agribusiness 2.2_2 Increasingly, American agriculture has become “agribusiness”, a term coined to reflect the large-scale nature of agricultural enterprise in the modern U.S. economy. As such, agribusiness refers to the entire complex of farm-related businesses, from an individual farmer to a multinational maker of farm chemicals. It includes farm cooperatives, rural banks, shippers of farm products, commodity dealers, firms that manufacture farm equipment, food processing, grocery chains and many other businesses. In many ways, agribusiness correctly describes changes in American farms in the late 20th century. 1. Manufacturing patterns 2.3 The U.S industrial and manufacturing heartland is the Midwest region of the Great Lakes — southern Michigan, northern Ohio and Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh. But other industrial regions have grown in the Northeast, Northwest and Southwest (California). In all these areas, they tend to specialize in high-tech and computer industries. Other fast-growing industrial regions are the Southeast and Texas, where large chemical and high-tech industries have made great strides over the past two decades. 1. Manufacturing patterns 2.3_1 Manufacturing patterns of the United States 2. Manufacturing output 2.3_2 As of now, America still remains the world leader in many industrial and manufacturing areas. Among these are biochemical and genetic engineering, aerospace research and development, aircraft, communications, and computers. In recent years, due to technological advances, American industrial and manufacturing production has been largely quite stable. 2.3_2 Ranking according to manufacturing output 2. Manufacturing output Service industry in the United States 2.4 Comparatively speaking, service industries in the United States have grown