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Why we celebrate Ag Week
Courtesy of Agricultural Council of America ment agencies and countless others across America gath-
er to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by
March 15th is National Ag Day. It falls during National American agriculture.
Ag Week, March 13-19, 2011, a time when producers, ag- As the world population soars, there is even greater
ricultural associations, corporations, universities, govern- demand for the food, fiber and renewable resources pro-
“Best in your field and ours!”
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duced in the United States.
The National Ag Day program believes that every Ameri-
can should:
• understand how food, fiber and renewable resource prod-
ucts are produced.
• value the essential role of agriculture in maintaining a
strong economy.
• appreciate the role agriculture plays in providing safe,
abundant and affordable products.
• acknowledge and consider career opportunities in the ag-
riculture, food, fiber and renewable resource industries.
Agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and
wear on a daily basis, and is increasingly contributing to
fuel and other bio-products. Each year, members of the
agricultural industry gather together to promote American
agriculture. This effort helps educate millions of consumers
each year.
A few generations ago, most Americans were directly
involved in—or had relatives or friends involved in— ag-
ricultural-related endeavors. Today, that is no longer the
case.
Americans need to understand the value of agriculture
in their daily lives. Here are just some of the key reasons
why it’s important to recognize—and celebrate—Ag Day
each year:
• Increased knowledge of agriculture and nutrition allows
individuals to make informed personal choices about diet
and health.
• Informed citizens will be able to participate in establish-
ing the policies that will support a competitive agricultural
industry in this country and abroad.
• Employment opportunities exist across the board in
agriculture. Career choices include:
• farm production
• agribusiness management and marketing
• agricultural research and engineering
• food science
• processing and retailing
• banking
• education
• landscape architecture
• urban planning
• energy
• and other fields.
Agriculture is too important a topic to be taught only to
the small percentage of students considering careers in
agriculture and pursuing vocational agricultural studies.
message a great deal further than any one of us can do
alone!
Agricultural literacy includes an understanding of agri-
culture’s history and current economic, social and environ-
mental significance to all Americans. This understanding
includes some knowledge of food, fiber and renewable
resource production, pro-
cessing and domestic and
international marketing.
That is why it is so im-
portant that we join to-
gether at the community
level . . . our voices, in
concert, become a shout
that carries the mes-
sage a great deal further
than any one of us can
do alone! Agriculture is
AMAZING!
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Popcorn for breakfast?

AND OTHER INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE FOOD WE GROW
Corn Poppin’ Facts
Popcorn pops because water is stored in
a small circle of soft starch in each kernel.
As the kernel is heated, the water heats, the
droplet of moisture turns to steam and the
steam builds up pressure until the kernel
finally explodes to many times its original
volume.
Americans today consume 17.3 billion
quarts of popped popcorn each year! The
average American eats about 68 quarts!
While the first breakfast cereal was
made by adding sugar and milk to popped
popcorn, a shortage of baking flours after
World War II forced breadmakers to substi-
tute up to 25% of wheat flour with ground
popped popcorn. Over the years, popcorn
also has been used as an ingredient in pud-
ding, candy, soup, salad and entrees.
Popcorn’s nutritional value comes from
the fact that, like other cereal grains, its pri-
mary function is to provide the body with
heat and energy.
Microwave popcorn is the same as other
popcorn except the kernels are usually larger
and the packaging is designed for maximum
popability.
Cherrific!
The same chemicals that give tart cher-
ries their color may relieve pain better than
aspirin and ibuprofen in humans.
Eating about 20 tart cherries a day could
reduce inflammatory pain and headache
pain.
There are about 7,000 cherries on an
average tart cherry tree (the number varies
depending on the age of the tree, weather
and growing conditions). It takes about 250
cherries to make a cherry pie, so each tree
could produce enough cherries for 28 pies!
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 let-
tuce every year. That’s about five times
more than what we ate in the early 1900s.
In the United States, lettuce is the sec-
ond 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.
What’s up Doc?
The plant pigment that gives carrots and
other vegetables their vivid orange color is
Beta-Carotene. Fruits and Vegetables that
are yellow/orange in color contain Beta-
Carotene and carrots are one of the richest
in this nutrient. Our bodies convert Beta-
Carotene into Vitamin A.
The bright orange color of carrots tell
you they’re an excellent source of Vitamin
A which is important for good eyesight, es-
pecially at night. Vitamin A helps your body
fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair
healthy!
Berry, Berry Good for You!
Blueberries are the second most popular
berry in the United States.
Michigan and New Jersey produce 66%
of all the blueberries in the United States,
followed by North Carolina, Oregon and
Washington.
Over 200 million pounds of blueberries
are grown every year in North America.
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Blueberries are first picked by hand to
gather the best of the early fruit. Later, if
the fruit is to be mechanically harvested, a
harvesting machine goes through the field
and gently shakes each bush so only the ripe
blueberries drop off.
Blueberries are a good source of Vita-
min C and fiber.
Cracking Up
In the U.S. in 1998, hens produced
6,657,000,000 dozen eggs - that’s 6.657 bil-
lion dozen! After these eggs were laid, about
two-thirds were sold in the shell and one
third of them were broken - not by accident,
but on purpose. Because after the eggs are
broken out of their shells, they can be made
into liquid, frozen, dried and specialty egg
products.
The egg shell may have as many as
17,000 tiny pores over its surface. Through
them, the egg can absorb flavors and odors.
Storing them in their cartons helps keep
them fresh!
Eggs age more in one day at room tem-
perature than in one week in the refrigera-
tor.
Occasionally, a hen will produce dou-
ble-yolked eggs throughout her egg-laying
career. It is rare, but not unusual, for a young
hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all.
It takes 24 to 26 hours for a hen to pro-
See “POPCORN” page 6

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Careers in agriculture: growing opportunities
The most obvious careers are directly
related to the farm or ranch. But did you
know that only 10 percent of Americans are
involved in traditional farming? If that is
the case, then what other careers comprise
the agricultural field? There are approxi-
mately 22 million people who work in agri-
culture related fields. Unlike agriculture of
our grandparents’ day, today’s agriculture
offers over 200 rewarding and challenging
careers.
Career Categories
Agricultural careers may be divided into
various categories. These include: Agribusi-
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ral Resources Communications, Building
Construction Management, Agriscience,
Resource Development and Management,
Parks, Recreations, and Tourism Resources,
Packaging, Horticulture, Forestry, Food
Science, and Fisheries/Wildlife.
Growth Job Market
According Farm Bureau News, pub-
lished semimonthly by the American Farm
Bureau Federation, “Food Scientists and
engineers will be in the greatest demand in
the agriculutural job market over the next
four years, according to a new Purdue Uni-
versity study. Annual job openings for U.S.
food and agricultural sciences graduates are
projected to be around 58,000, while the
number of graduates for those jobs will be
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Sample job titles: Food Technician, Laboratory
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POPCORN
(Continued from page 3)
duce an egg; there is 30 minutes between
each egg-producing cycle.
About 240 million laying hens produce
about 5.5 billion dozen eggs per year in the
United States.
Egg yolks are one of the few foods that
naturally contain Vitamin D.
Macaroni Mania
Pasta is one of America’s favorite
foods. Last year, 1.3 million pounds of
pasta were sold in American grocery stores.
If you lined up 1.3 million pounds of 16
oz. spaghetti packages, it could circle the
Earth’s equator almost nine times!
Noodles got their start in China, not
Italy as many people might think.
Pasta made its way to the New World
through the English who found it while
traveling through Italy. The English made
pasta by cooking it for about a half an hour
and then smothering it with cream sauce
and cheese. This was the beginning of Mac-
aroni and Cheese!
America’s first large pasta factory was
built in Brooklyn, New York in 1848 by a
Frenchman who would spread out his spa-
ghetti strands on the roof to dry in the sun-
shine.
An Apple a Day
Apples are a member of the rose fam-
ily.Washington state grows the most apples
in the U.S.The apples from one tree can fill
20 boxes every year. Fresh apples float be-
cause 25 percent of their volume is air.
In the winter, apple trees need to “rest”
for about 900-1,000 hours below 45 de-
grees Fahrenheit in order to flower and fruit
properly.
If you grew 100 apple trees from the
seeds of one tree, they would all be differ-
ent.
Apples are high in fiber. There are more
than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the
world.
Green Greek Goddess
The name asparagus comes from the
Greek language and means “sprout” or
“shoot.” Asparagus is a member of the
Lily family. Asparagus is related to onions,
leeks, and garlic.
One of the most popular varieties of
green asparagus is named after Martha
Washington, the wife of George Washing-
ton. California grows about 70% of all the
asparagus grown in the United States.
More than 50,000 tons of asparagus are
grown in California every year.
Broccoli Basics
We are eating 900% more broccoli than
we did 20 years ago.
In 1970, consumption of broccoli was
only a half a pound per person. Today, the
average person in the United States eats
four and one half pounds a year.
In the United States, broccoli was prob-
ably first grown by immigrants from Italy
in home gardens in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1923, a group of Italian vegetable farm-
ers in Northern California started to grow
broccoli commercially and in a few years
they were shipping fresh broccoli to Boston
and New York.
You May Find this “Corny”
One bushel of corn will sweeten more
than 400 cans of pop. There are about 600
kernels on each ear of corn.
Farmers grow corn on every continent
except Antarctica. Each tassel on a corn
plant releases as many as 5 million grains
of pollen.

America’s Bread Basket

Each American consumers, on aver-
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suming a sandwich was eaten for break-
SINCE 1952 fast, lunch and dinner, it would take
168 days to eat the amount of bread
produced from one bushel of wheat.
A family of four could live for 10
years off the bread produced by one
acre of wheat.
One bushel of wheat will produce 73
one-pound loaves of bread.
Farmers receive approximately 5
cents (or less) from each loaf of bread
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Location: At northwest edge of Willshire, Ohio, on St. Rd. 33
or southeast approximately 8 miles from Decatur, IN or St. RD. 33,
at Farmers Grain & Ag LLC, 1257 St. Rd. 33, Willshire, OH 45898.
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hyd. brake controller, 2564 hrs. • 1999 cat 55 tractor, 18” belts, 120”
track spacing, P/S, 3pt, pto, 4 remotes, 3395 hrs. • 1996 Jd 8400 tractor,
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3pt, coupler, pto, 4 remote, 5563 hrs. • Jd 4850 tractor, MFWD, 18.4x42
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mt335B tractor, MFWD, Rops, 18.4Rx30 rear, 12.4R 24 fronts, 12/12
power reverser w/ ML72B loader, 625 hrs. • 2005 new holland tL100a
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bucket sells separate) • 1996 case 580 Super L backhoe, C/H, 4x4,
extenda hoe, turbo, like new rubber, 1’ & 2’ bucket, 6100 hrs. • 2003
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ripper, auto reset, coulters • 32’ Krause Landsman soil finisher, k tine,
baskets, hyd. fold • 25’ ih 490 disc hyd. fold, tandems • 20’ Jd 230
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white 378 cultivator 6x30 • 88” woods tiller (like new) • 30’ Jd 400
rotary hoe, FF, gauge wheels
HarVeSt • coMBineS WaGonS
case ih 1688 combine, 20.8X38 straddle duals, 14.9x24 rears,
Cummins power, spec. rotor, rock trap, field tracker yield monitor,
bin ext., chaff spreader, 2 sp chopper, heavy lift cyd. on feeder house,
3102 eng. approx. 2600 sep. (1 year on rebuild) • cih 1083 corn head,
8x30, field tracker, water pump bearing, low acres, 1 owner • cih 1020
platform, 25’ field tracker, 3” cut, fore/aft. double drive, see thru reel,
low acre, 1 owner • Jd 9500 combine, 20.8x38 duals, Ag Leader yield
monitor, bin ext., new cylinder bars, 5000 eng. 3400 sep. hrs. • Jd 930
grain platform, hyd. fore/aft. • Jd 925 grain platform, poly snouts, pipe
reel, contour master • Jd 220 grain platform • J&m 30’ header cart • (2)
unverferth HT 25 head carts • 25’ head cart • (2) Killbros 375 wagons
w/ Killbros gears • J&m 385 wagon • J&m 250 wagon w/ JD gear, 12’
poly auger • J&m small wagon • parker wagon
PLantinG • SPraYerS FertiLiZer
Jd 1560 no-till drill, 2pt, high floatation tires, JD markers, Si meters
& units, constant down pressure • Jd 7200 planter, 12x30, liquid, flex
vacuum, yetter, single disc, 250 monitor • Jd 7000 planter, 6x30, liquid,
no-till finger, bean cups, monitor • Jd 7000 planter, 6x30, dry, monitor
• Jd 8350 drill, 18x7, grass seed • 11 knife NH3 applicator, 3pt • 1979
f-250 spray truck, 4x4, floatation tires, 460 V8, fresh overhaul, A/T, air
ride, w/ Ag Chem sprayer, hyd. 52’ booms • 1973 f-600 spray truck,
centerline guidance, spray controller, 1000 gal. stainless tank, 60’ hyd.
booms, floatation tires, 391 V8 • hardi sprayer 550 gal. tank, 45’ booms
foam markers • century sprayer, 700 gal. tank, tandem axle, 60’ hyd.
booms, foam markers • 1000 gal. nurse tank
HaY • Fert. • MeYer BoX SPreaderS
2009 meyer 9520 box spreader, pull type, S-200 attach., 2 chains (used
1 season) • 2009 meyer 9524 box spreader, pull type, S-100 attach.,
(used 1 season) • 2009 nh 5070 baler, hyd. tension, hyd. tongue, N072
thrower, (like new) • claas rollant 66 round baler, net wrap, “nice” •
claas liner 650 twin rotary rake, tandem axle, 11’ wheels, “nice” • Jd
510 round baler • ih 990 haybine • ni 484 round baler, 5x4 bales, “nice”
Grain HandLinG
2007 Krammer 155’, 450 bu/hr grain leg, 9”x6” buckets, distributor, 30
hp, 3 phase, gear drive, clean out doors, available mid summer (Custom
Ag will remove at sellers expense mid summer) • 2007 sukup 24’ grain
dryer, model T2420, (2) 20 hp fans, heat/cool, deluxe, 1600 bu. 5 points
full heat, computer control, 3 phase, nat. gas, (used 3 seasons) • Ken
sun Tower dryer, model 10-25-215, natural gas, S/N 31073 • 1200 bu.
wet holding bin, top till, bin sensor • 40’ grain leg, 9”x8”, 1500 bu/hr,
gear & motor • Grain leg support tower • 8” down spouting • 10”x62’
hutchinson swing away auger, low profile hopper • 10”x61’ mayrath
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hutchinson auger •
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trUcKS • traiLerS
1990 int 5000 lime truck, L-10 Cummins, Allison A/T 18,000 lb. front
46, 000 lb. rear, 11.r 22.5 rears, super single fronts, w/ 1995 16’ New
leader box • 1980 chevy c-70 grain truck, 366, 5+2 sp, 16’ Knapheide
bed & hoise, cargo doors, Shurlock tarp, 46,900 miles • ford f-700
truck, 16’ bed, 391 gas, 5 sp • 34’ Benson alum. dump trailer, tandem,
roll tarp • 2000 etnyre 35 ton detachable trailer, air ride • 35’ fruehauf
tilt deck trailer, dual tandems, air brakes, 96” wide • 30’ Gooseneck tri
axle trailer, dove tail, 6 new tires • 25’ flat bed gooseneck trailer, dual
wheel tandem w/ ramps • 16’ tandem axle trailers, brakes, ramp
MoWerS • FarM MiSc.
2009 Jd X300 mower, 17 hp, 42” mulching deck, hyd raise, cruise (only
33hrs.) • 2007 Bush hog CZ 2561, zero turn mower, 18 hp, 52” deck,
like new, only 137 hrs. • Grasshopper 718 zero turn mower, 18 hp, 52”
deck • Kubota 2354 garden tractor, 23 hp Kohler, 54” deck • woods
r2048 zero turn mower, 20 hp, 48” deck • dixon commercial zero turn
mower, 27 hp, 72” deck • easy vac lawn vac system • irrafrance hard
hose traveler 2”x800’ • h&s hd714 silage wagon, galv. triple beater •
h&s 412 tandem gear (like new) • 7’ Bush hog mower, 3pt • 7’ new
idea snow blower, 3pt • 6’ woods grader box w/ teeth • Gorman
rupp 4” pump, pto • 14’ flail chopper • walsh 3pt sprayer • new idea
12a manure spreader, ground drive, triple beater • small 2 wheel
trailer • calf creeper feeder • 20.8x38 duals • set 18.4x38 T-rails • set
18.4x16.1 floatation tires • 12’ dozer blade • cih feeder house chain •
(10) cooper lights, 1 phase 120-440 • craftsman table saw • 6” seed
cleaner • 20’ Bushhog chopper • Land pride TS55 tree eliminator,
skid steer tree saw attachment • the tile plow Company tile plow,
pull type or 3pt, 4”&6” boots • 13’ Bushhog mower, 540 pto • 15’
woods batwing mower, 4 wheels • 15’ Bushhog 2615 batwing mower
• 8’ woods RB850-4 grader blade, hyd angle adjustment, 3 pt • 8’
Landscape box w/ Harley rake attachment, hyd. • 6’ Landscape box w/
harley rake attachment, pto • 3 yd snow bucket for wheel loader • Jd
180 • dixon 560 20 hp Kohler, 60” deck • husqvarna chainsaw 18” bar
• 2½ ton smidley creep feeder • agri tronix cpm-468 control Raven
monitor • cardinal detecto-scale head model 748, 100,000 lbs. • cat
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Agricultural equipment leasing drives modern farm economics

Agriculture is an ancient part of society and industry.
People have been farming land and grazing livestock for
centuries as a way of life and to feed themselves. There are
two main parts of agriculture, which are subsistence farming
and farming to make a profit. Subsistence farming is based
on self-sufficiency where a farmer’s sole focus is producing
enough food to feed their families. This form of agricul-
ture is more common in poorer and third-world countries.
Farming for a profit is very common in western and more
developed countries and depending on the scale, can be a
very profitable business.
For the average family involved in agriculture they are
often no wealthier than the rest of us. Agriculture for them
is a way of life and their family might have done it for gen-
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agricultural business can go through very high periods of
economic growth and then into low periods of stagnation.
To allow farmers and businessmen to go with the flow of
market cycles and economic upturns and downturns, leas-
ing of equipment used in their agricultural sector is very
important. This is where equipment needed for a particular
purpose for a particular time is not actually purchased but
leased or borrowed only for a certain period of time.
Examples of equipment leased are: For the growing of
crops - tractors, harvesters, hay balers, any type of plough-
ing or seed planting machines. When it comes to other
farms or even cattle stations, graders, loaders, other heavy
machines, cattle trucks, complete road trains, small tractors
and cars are often leased. These machines might be used
for a particular time and then returned. By doing this you
only have a machine or implement in your possession when
you actually need it. This is a very common practice in this
industry and has many advantages.
Reasons for leasing equipment is that it is only needed
for a short period of time and the down time when you
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expenses and also there are tax advantages in some coun-
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to lease agricultural equipment is the cost saving of a capital
investment. Many people and business simply can’t afford
the cost of a capital investment in a large machine such as a
powerful John Deere tractor or an expensive harvester but
they need them for a particular time of the year.
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– enough for about 40 people. One cow can give 200,000
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It takes approximately 1.4 gallons of milk to make 1
gallon of ice cream.
Cheese was first made over 4,000 years ago in Asia.
A cow has 4 stomachs. They are: the rumen, where
the food is first stored, the reticulum where food that has
been more thoroughly chewed is stored once the cow has
FARMOWNER/HOMEOWNER INSURANCE chewed the cud and has swallowed it; the omasum where
extra water is squeezed out, and finally the food goes to the A typical, full grown Holstein cow weighs about 1,400
abomasum. Some of the digested food is then stored in the pounds and produces 60 pounds of milk per day.
112 E. Third Street cow’s udder where it is made into milk. One day’s production is 2.6 pounds of butter or 7 gal-
Cows are ruminants or cud-chewing animals eating lons of milk or 6 pounds of cheese.
Delphos, OH 45833 hay, corn, soybeans, grass, wheat, and ensilage. Each cow A dairy cow consumes 35 gallons of water, 20 pounds
eats 20 to 25 pounds of grain, 40 to 60 pounds of ensilage, of grain and concentrated feed and 35 pounds of hay or
Local Agents: 30 pounds of hay and drinks about 15 to 25 gallons of wa- silage (a mixture of corn and grass) in just one day.
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Understanding crop rotation
Though it’s easy for suburbanites or
city dwellers to go months, if not years,
without seeing a farm, the most recent
agriculture census for which information
is available notes that in 2007 there were
2.1 million farms in the United States.
Those farms spanned 922 million acres,
shedding light on the fact that while many
Americans might not see farms on a daily
basis, that doesn’t mean the country isn’t
still a great home to farmland.
While farming might once have been
a part of most Americans’ daily lives, to-
day the principles of farming are much
more foreign to the average American.
One such principle is crop rotation, a
valuable agricultural practice that can
even pay dividends for suburban hom-
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to large farms, as they can help keep per-
sonal gardens healthy as well.
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mono-cropping, which is the practice of
growing the same crop on the same land
year after year after year. When rotating
crops, each succeeding crop must belong
to a family different from the previous
crop.
Why Employ Crop Rotation?
Crop rotation has many benefits, ar-
guably the most important of which is
keeping pests and disease at bay. Since
many pest insects and disease-causing
organisms are host specific, rotating
crops helps ensure these insect pests and
harmful organisms cannot make a perma-
nent home or have access to a permanent
source of food. If crops aren’t rotated,
then the insect pests and organisms have
a constant source of food, enabling them
to live longer and do more damage to
crops as a result.
But crop rotation isn’t only beneficial
to crops. Crop rotation can also promote Crop rotation is a practice that both farmers and gardening enthusiasts can
healthy soil. Different crops have differ- benefit from.
ent nutrient needs, so rotating crops with
deep-rooting while others are shallow reliance on synthetic chemicals to fight
different nutrient needs helps avoid the
rooting. By alternating between the two, pests.
depletion of any one element present in
planters can break up any subsoil that By rotating crops, planters are making
the soil.
might have grown compacted. it much harder for pests to thrive, without
Soil structure is often better when
Crop rotation also offers environ- having to spend money on costly and of-
crops are rotated as well. Some crops are
mental and financial benefits by reducing ten environmentally harmful pesticides.
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Many farmers grow more than just grains,

Farming more than food is when the wool will be spun into yarn. Fi-
vegetable and livestock. Some farmers grow nally, the yarn is knitted or woven into fab-
trees. This is called a woodlot. A woodlot ric.
is not an original forest, because the timber Environmental and
has been cut down before. Sometimes the health benefits of farm products:
trees in a woodlot have been cut down four, •The environment and everyone in it ben-
five, ore even six times. After the trees have efits from research on biodegradable plant
been cut down, the farmer lets them grow up products that break down easily in landfills.
again, until they are big enough to be har- •Agriculture land provides food and hab-
vested once more. itat for 75% of the nation’s wildlife. Deer,
Not only is the wood on woodlots good to moose, fowl and other species have shown
sell to timber companies to make paper, etc., significant population increases in the past
but the timber can also be useful on the farm. several years.
The farmer can cut down the timber and use •Genetic engineering with plants and ani-
it to build fences, barns, or other buildings. mals has resulted in new antibodies for im-
Some farmers grow specialized woodlots munizations. Other research has developed
that are used for a specific purpose. surgical techniques and pharmaceuticals
from agriculture that help save lives.
Don’t Be Sheepish •Ethanol and new bio-diesel fuels made
There are 914 different breeds of sheep from corn and other grains are beneficial to
in the world. There are 35 breeds in the U.S. the environment and promote energy secu- U.S. textile mills presently convert over spreads to window shades. It is by far the
Wool is a natural fiber grown from sheep. rity. half of the cotton they use into clothing. dominant fiber in towels and washcloths.
The steps to making some of your favor- Soybean farming The majority of cotton is used for men’s Cotton is also popular in sheets and pillow-
ite clothes: Soy is used to make candles, crayons, and boys’ clothing, with jeans and shirts cases.
Sheep are sheared in the spring, their wool beauty products, cleaners and floor waxes. topping the list. Cotton is also a food crop. Almost 200
is removed in one piece called a fleece. Soybean oil is also a major source of Ameri- If all of the cotton produced annually in million gallons of cottonseed oil are used in
Next, the fleece is washed in big tubs to can biodiesel. the U.S. were used to make one product, food products such as margarine and salad
remove dirt, grease and grass, this process is Soybean oil is the most widely used veg- such as blue jeans, it would make 5 billion dressing. Cottonseed and cottonseed meal
called scouring. etable oil. It is found in margarine’s, salad pair. are used in feed for livestock and poultry.
The clean, dry wool is then carded. Card- dressings, canned foods, sauces, bakery One bale of cotton can produce 1,217 And even products such as toothpaste, ice
ing means to comb the wool to straighten goods, and processed fried foods. men’s t-shirts or 313,600 one-hundred dol- cream, and the paper money used to buy
the fibers. lar ($100) bills. them contain by-products of the cotton
The next process is called spinning. This Crazy about Cotton Cotton’s home uses range from bed- seed.

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On-farm renewable energy production shows tremendous growth

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The number of solar panels,
wind turbines and methane digesters on America’s farms
and ranches has increased significantly over the past de-
cade and there are now 8,569 operations producing their
own renewable energy, according to the results of the 2009
On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Survey released
today. Conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
National Agricultural Statistics Service, this was the first-
ever nationwide survey that looked at renewable energy
practices on America’s farms and ranches.
“These results indicate that farmers and ranchers are
increasingly adopting renewable energy practices on their
operations and reaping the important economic and envi-
ronmental benefits,” said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack. “At USDA we are committed to natural resource
conservation, prosperity and energy independence in rural
America. This survey gives us a benchmark against which
we can measure our future successes.”
According to the survey results, solar panels were the
most prominent way to produce on-farm energy. In 2009,
farmers on 7,968 operations nationwide reported using
photovoltaic and thermal solar panels. The use of wind tur-
bines was reported by farmers on 1,420 operations across
48 states. The use of methane digesters was reported by
121 operations in 29 states.
On the state level, California leads the nation with
1,956 operations producing renewable energy, accounting
for nearly a quarter of all operations in the United States
participating in this practice. Texas, Hawaii and Colorado
were the other major states where farmers on at least 500
or more operations were producing their own renewable
energy.
The survey results also show an economic upside to pro-
ducing energy on the farm. Farmers in nearly every state
reported savings on their utility bills. The savings were es-
pecially noticeable in New York, where utility bill savings
reported by respondents topped $5,000 for 2009.
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