The year is 2015, few Americas live a day to day life without food. Many of us can thank the farmers of America for that statistic, but, do you know where all of that wonderful food comes from? Not the processed garage but that wonderful steak, poultry, vegetables etc. If you live in Iowa like I do, you probably know who provides most of this food, it is our farmers! Iowa is known quite well for its sweet corn and soybean production but many don’t know that were #1 in production of those vegetables. Another statistic that is awesome is we’re #2 in red meat production! In a study done on Iowa’s agriculture in 2012 http://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/stats/iowa.pdf it was found that Iowa averages about a 20 degrees F in January and about 76 degrees
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About 55,875 sq miles of Iowa land is used for agricultural work! That’s about 90% of Iowa’s land! That means only 10% isn’t used for some sort of agricultural work, that’s a pretty crazy statistic. Along with crop farming comes a huge factor of other work like hog, cattle, and chicken farming. About 28.6% of Americas hogs are in Iowa, that’s 20.6 million hogs just in the state of Iowa! We also have about 3.8 million cows and 52 million chickens! I don’t know about you but that’s a lot of food Iowa is providing to America and that’s just another reason why you should support your local farmers and love Iowa. After a long hard day there is nothing better than an ice cold glass of milk, white or chocolate. You don’t think much of where it came from but, it mostly likely also came from Iowa. In a more recent study done in 2015 by http://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=IOWA Iowa produced about 4.6 billion lbs of milk! That is about 22,000 lbs of milk per cow. Most of that milk goes to a factory for it to be safe to drink but, it also goes to an American favorite…Cheese! So if you like cheese on a burger with a nice glass of milk is just another reason to be thankful we have great
About 55,875 sq miles of Iowa land is used for agricultural work! That’s about 90% of Iowa’s land! That means only 10% isn’t used for some sort of agricultural work, that’s a pretty crazy statistic. Along with crop farming comes a huge factor of other work like hog, cattle, and chicken farming. About 28.6% of Americas hogs are in Iowa, that’s 20.6 million hogs just in the state of Iowa! We also have about 3.8 million cows and 52 million chickens! I don’t know about you but that’s a lot of food Iowa is providing to America and that’s just another reason why you should support your local farmers and love Iowa. After a long hard day there is nothing better than an ice cold glass of milk, white or chocolate. You don’t think much of where it came from but, it mostly likely also came from Iowa. In a more recent study done in 2015 by http://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=IOWA Iowa produced about 4.6 billion lbs of milk! That is about 22,000 lbs of milk per cow. Most of that milk goes to a factory for it to be safe to drink but, it also goes to an American favorite…Cheese! So if you like cheese on a burger with a nice glass of milk is just another reason to be thankful we have great