Illinois
What is the most-produced agricultural crop in Illinois?
Corn
What percent of all food grown and produced in the U.S. is never eaten?
40%
What is the single largest employer in the world?
Agriculture
Who was a blacksmith from Vermont who developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow in 1837 and founded the company that still bears their name?
John Deere
What fruit is strangely a berry?
Where is most prime farmland located in Illinois?
Central Illinois
What type of farming accounts for 29% of American farms?
Beef farming
How many organic farmers are there worldwide? (Hint: guess in millions)
2.9 million organic farmers worldwide
Who was an American industrialist and inventor from Virginia who is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
What animals can run a seven-minute mile?
Pigs
What is Illinois' biggest agricultural export?
Soybeans
914 million acres
What country is the top leader is agricultural products?
China
Who established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab where they worked tirelessly on the development of hundreds of applications for new plants? This person also discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.
Dr. George Washington Carver
What school supply is made from soybeans?
Crayons
Who is the largest land owner in Illinois?
the Mormon Church - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – 38,000 Acres
The average U.S. farmer can feed how many people?
155 people
What rank is the U.S. in agricultural production?
3rd
Who was an agriculture teacher at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he, along with three other agriculture teachers, Walter Newman, Edmund Magill and Harry Sanders, decided to establish a club for the farm boys in the school (FFA). The organization was formed in 1925.
Henry Groseclose
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is how long?
13 seconds
71 million bushels of corn - Which Illinois County is the highest producing in the state?
McLean County
In 2015, how many dollars worth of American Agriculture products were exported around the world? (Hint: guess in billions)
$133.1 billion
What country is ranked first in sustainable agriculture?
Who was the primary innovator of dry land irrigation and water conservation techniques in late 19th century southern California? (Female)
Harriet Williams Strong
It takes how long for for one pineapple to grow?
Two years