Surdex is one of largest in a team of ten companies that's assembling this atlas of American agriculture for the USDA. This year, it will process more than a hundred thousand images, covering ten states in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States.

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If you live in the Northwestern part of the United States make that Seattle, Wash.

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