AGRICULTURE: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT

CHICKENS

• About 100 eggs a year
• 26 hours for a egg to fully form

PIGS

• A 200lbs. Pig hives 10-12 lbs of bacon

COWS

• A cow has 750 pounds of steak.

COWS

• Cows makes 6-7 gallons of milk a day

CORN

• The U.S is one of the worldwide corn leaders with 96,000,000 acres (39,000,000 ha) of land reserved for corn production.

WHEAT

• Kanas produces 10.8 tons of wheat

GRAPES

• California grows over 300,000 tons of grapes each year

CARROTS

• 70,000 acres of carrots come from California

BEANS

• 1.46 million acres of beans

RICE

• 3.1 million acres in the US were under rice production