AGRICULTURE

There are a total of 2.1 million farms across America.

99% of those farms are family owned.

In Minnesota alone there are a total of 81,000 thousand farms.

And there is 86,715 farms in Iowa.

A major farm is Grimmway farms in California. They produce 10 million pounds of carrots a day and have 40,000 acres of carrots on their farm.

40 of the tractors they use were made at AGCO in jackson, MN

Agriculture isn't just farming one career in agriculture is aquatic ecology.

Another job in agriculture is floriculture floriculture means: the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.

Floriculture is especially used in the rose parade which used 81 million flowers in the 2017 parade

BUSHEL WEIGHTS

• One bushel of spinach weighs 20 lbs
• A bushel of corn weighs 56 lbs
• A bushel of cotton weighs 32 lbs