AG HAIKU

COMBINE

HOW A COMBINE WORKS

• Corn or beans are cut off from there roots and then the crop is taken off the plant and chopped into small pieces. Next it is suppurated from the cob or pod. The cob and the rest of the plant shoot out the back onto the ground and the corn or beans go to the for storage

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• The corn/beans from the storage compartment and are sucked up a ager into a grain cart.

FARM RELATED INJURIES AND DEATHS

• Nearly 130,000 injuries happened last year in the US
• A lot of these were kids
• 1,300 people died last year on farms.

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• Most accidents could have been prevented if people knew what they were doing. A lot of those injuries were kids not paying attention to what they are doing around heavy equipment.

HOW AN AGER WORKS

• From the grain cart, the corn is dumped into a semi. Then the semis dumps the corn onto a float and the corn is brought into the grain bin for storage.

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• Almost 250 gallons of milk is made from each cow each year.

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• In 2011, each person ate 245 eggs in a year.

CORN PER BUSHEL

• 48 ears of corn
• 56 pounds

HOW MUCH HAY DOES A HORSE EAT PER DAY.

• Horses eat 2 pounds of hay per 100 pounds of there weight.