Agriculture Project
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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Marketable surplus
The growth of agricultural sector contributes to marketable surplus.
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Combine is important to AG because farmers use it to plow their crops.
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Cow is used for making milk, and many other dairy products.
Dairy farmers produce 730 million tons in 2011.
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Wheat is used for making bread.
In 2013 world production of wheat was 713 million tons.
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Corn
Farmers use corn for food for their cattle, pigs, and chicken feed.
332 million metric tons of corn grown a annually in the U.S alone.
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Silo
Farmers use silos to store their crops from their harvest. The amount a silo can hold depends on it's size.
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Pigs
Farmers have pigs for fattening them for bacon, pork chops, and some other meats.
One pig in it's life time can weigh up to 500- 1,000 pounds.
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Manure spreader
Farmers use manure spreader to spread manure over their fields after harvest. A spreader can hold different load on it's size.
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Potatoes
Farmers plant potatoes to sell to us and other farmers.
Minnesota produces over 1.9 billion potatoes annually.
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