TN Top 5
Bringing in nearly $1 billion in cash receipts annually, this versatile legume is Tennessee's number one crop.
What are soybeans?
What is a by-product of honey?
Chapstick
This is the most common use for the meal left over after oil is extracted from soybeans.
What is livestock (or animal) feed?
This tough, flexible material made from cattle hide is used to make boots, belts, and baseball gloves.
What is leather?
To make them durable, United States paper bills are actually made of 25% linen and 75% of this fluffy commodity.
What is cotton?
These young chickens raised specifically for meat are the top livestock commodity in Tennessee.
What are broilers?
What are 5 by-products of tomatoes?
Tomato paste, tomato soup, ketchup, Marinara, pizza sauce
Many modern textbooks and newspapers use this smooth-flowing, eco-friendly soybean by-product instead of petroleum.
What is soy ink?
This protein by-product made from cattle bones and skin makes Jell-O jiggle and is found in gummy bears.
What is gelatin?
This liquid by-product is squeezed from cotton seeds and is commonly used for frying food or making margarine.
What is cotton-seed oil?
What is corn?
What are some by-products of cacao beans?
Chocolate candy bars
This renewable, clean-burning fuel is made from soybean oil and can power modified diesel trucks and tractors.
What is biodeisel?
Fat from cattle, called tallow, is often used as a moisturizing base in these two common bathroom hygiene products.
What is soap and lotion?
Because it is sterile and absorbent, raw cotton is heavily processed into these standard first-aid kit items.
What are cotton balls?
This phrase describes the total dollar amount farmers receive from selling all their livestock and crop commodities in a single year.
What are cash recipients?
List 3 by-products of corn
Corn syrup, ethanol, dried grains for livestock
Soybeans can replace paraffin wax to create this colorful, everyday classroom drawing tool.
What are crayons?
Cattle organs provide this lifesaving hormone used by humans to manage diabetes.
What is insulin?
After extracting the oil, the remaining cottonseed hulls and meal are recycled into this valuable agricultural product.
What is livestock feed?
Ranking 3rd in the entire United States for this specific commodity, it is Tennessee's number one international agricultural export.
What is cotton?
List 5 by-products of raw milk?
Yogurt, cheese, ice cream, cottage cheese, whey, casein, lactose
Soybeans are popular with farmers because they take this specific nutrient from the air and put it back into the soil.
What is Nitrogen?
This term describes a baby cow before it is weaned, which is a major starter commodity for beef farmers.
What is a calf?
This is the specific botanical term for the protective capsule or pod that grows on the cotton plant and bursts open to reveal the fluffy white fibers.
What is a cotton boll?