AGRICULTURE

Agriculture
Agriculture is the science of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing if animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

It takes 26 hours for a chicken to fully form an egg. They sometimes lay an egg a day but most times not.

DAIRY COW

• On average dairy cows will produce 6 to 7 gallons of milk each day!
• That's 2,372.5 gallons of milk and that's only one cow!!

LIFESPANS

• Cows can live up to be 20 years
• A chickens lifespan is around 8
• A pigs lifespan is 8 years

BUSHELS OF WHEAT

• One bushel of wheat weighs about 60 lbs which is about 42 lbs of flour

CORN FIELDS

• 1/3 of corn into a field goes to livestock on the farm such as cows, pigs and chickens

CROP DUSTING

• Why do we need crop dusting
• Because they spray it onto the field because the soil is not healthy enough

20% OF THE WORLDS CALORIES COME FROM CORN!

BEAN FIELDS

• It costs 2,013$ per 10 acres of a bean field

HOW MUCH FOOD DO PIGS EAT

• Typically, when hens are restricted from consuming the amount of feed they desire, egg production will cease. An average laying hen will consume about ¼ pound of feed per day,