PRESENTATION OUTLINE
More than 21 million farmers produce & process the nations food & fiber.
Raising beef cattle is the single largest segment of American agriculture.
Soybeans are an important ingredient for the production of crayons. In fact, one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons.
Elevators in the Statue of Liberty use a soybean-based hydraulic fluid.
Farm and ranch families comprise just 2 percent of the U.S. population.
There are around 2.2 million farms in the United States.
Farming employs more than 24 million American workers (17% of the total workforce).
In 2012, U.S. farms and ranches spent $329 billion to produce $388 billion in goods.
For every $1 spent on food, farmers get less than 12 cents for the raw product.
The top 10% of earners in the field makes about $107,000 a year.
