Fun Facts about Agriculture

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Udderly Amazing 

• The average U.S. dairy cow produces 22.5 quarts of milk each day. That’s about 16,000 glasses of milk per year – enough for about 40 people. One cow can give 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.
• It takes approximately 1.4 gallons of milk to make 1 gallon of ice cream.
• A typical, full grown Holstein cow weighs about 1,400 pounds and produces 60 pounds of milk per day.
• One day's production is 2.6 pounds of butter or 7 gallons of milk or 6 pounds of cheese.
• A dairy cow consumes 35 gallons of water, 20 pounds of grain and concentrated feed and 35 pounds of hay or silage (a mixture of corn and grass) in just one day.

Head Strong

• Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
• Darker Green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter green leaves.
• Americans eat about 30 pounds of lettuce every year. That’s about five times more than what we ate in the early 1900s.In the United States
  

• Lettuce is the second most
  popular fresh vegetable.
• Almost all lettuce is packed
  right in the field.
• About 25% of all iceberg
  lettuce is made into
  fresh cut salads.

Apple a Day 

• Apples are a member of the rose family.
• Washington state grows the most apples in the U. S.
• Apples are high in fiber.

• The apples from one tree can fill 20 boxes every year.
• Fresh apples float because 25 percent
  of their volume is air.
• In the winter, apple trees need to rest for about 900 to 1,000 hours below 45° Fahrenheit in order to flower and fruit properly.
• If you grew 100 apple trees from the seeds of one tree,
  they would all be different.
• There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world.

Pumpkin Eater

• Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites!
• Pumpkins are used for feed for animals.
• Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food and medicine.
• Pumpkins are 90% water.
• Pumpkin flowers are edible.
• Pumpkin seeds can be roasted as a snack.
• In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies,not the filling.

The name “pumpkin” originated from pepon, the Greek word for “large melon.” Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A.

Piggy, Piggy

• Pigs can't sweat. Pigs have no sweat glands, that is why they roll around in mud to cool off.
• Heart valves from hogs are used to replace damaged or diseased human heart valves.
• A pig can run a 7-minute mile.
• A baby pig, or piglet, weighs about 3-1/2 lbs. at birth and will double its weight in just 7 days.