AGRICULTURE

One in three US farm acres is planted for export

About 23 percent of raw U.S. farm products are exported each year.

Farm and ranch families comprise just 2 percent of the U.S. population.

In 2010 115 billion dollars worth of American agricultural products were exported around the world

The United States exported $136 billion in farm goods in 2011

Livestock farming feeds billions of people and employs 1.3 billion people

Bees contribute to more than $15 billion worth of crops every year through pollination

Raising beef cattle is the single largest segment of American agriculture

There are around 2.2 million farms in the United States

Bananas are the number one fruit crop in the world

SOURCES

• http://www.fb.org/newsroom/fastfacts/
• http://facts.randomhistory.com/farming-facts.html