Interesting Agriculture Facts

Nevada Agriculture is in the top ten industries in Nevada.

1 farmer feeds 128 people in the USA.

Only 2% of USA population is engaged in farming.

USA has only 7 % of annual income going
to food. Japan is 16% many third world countries
are as high as 80% or more. This is the reason
Why folks can afford a nice house two cars and many
Nice issues. Think what would happen if we double our costs
going to food.

22% of total employment in the USA is related to agriculture

The first large foreign policy program was related to agriculture through
the Marshall Plan.

The USA drinks more milk than any other country.

In less than 50 years when came from horse drawn plows to modern mechanized
agriculture.

First country to use biotechnology on a large scale.

First Country to have an extended education program through Land Grant Universities
to farmers, homemakers and youth in all 50 states and USA provinces.

First organized vocational education programs for secondary schools and agriculture
youth program called the Future Farmers of America.

A few U. S. Presidents that came from agriculture backgrounds George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson.

The USA is the largest exporter in the world of agriculture products.

The USA has the highest standard of living in the history of the world.

The USA has the safest food supply in the world.

The first crop certification programs for high quality seed products was first
started in the USA.

Wheat is the oldest cultivated crop in world history.

Corn or maize was first cultivated in Central America.

Henry Wallace a former Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt had a large interest in chicken breeding. In agriculture he is more famous for starting a company called
Pioneer Hybrid Seeds. Today Pioneer is the largest seed company in the world.

During the cold war Nikita Kruschev visited a farm family in Iowa called the Roswell Garst family. Roswell Garst started Garst Seeds.

The USA does more value added research than any country in a large variety of crops
from fuel to healthier products to vaccines from corn.

There are 914 breeds of sheep world wide about 35 breeds of sheep in the USA.

It takes 9 seconds to harvest enough wheat for 70 loaves of bread.

Hamburger meat from a single steer can make 720 quarter pound hamburger
patties.

Every year in the USA a person uses the equivalent of one tree 100 feet tall and 16 inches wide to fulfill paper usage needs.