Sigma Alpha
Women In Agriculture
CAFLS
Clemson University
SC Agriculture Facts
100

This university founded Sigma Alpha 

What is The Ohio State University?

100

In the U.S. what percent of farmers are women?

What is 35-37%?

100

What does CAFLS stand for?

What is The College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences?

100

What year was Clemson University founded?

What is 1889?

100

This is South Carolina's number one industry

What is Agribusiness?

200

What year was Sigma Alpha founded?

What is 1978?

200

This year will be named as the International Year of the Woman Farmer

What is 2026?

200

How many undergraduate majors does CAFLS have?

What is 12?

200
How many undergraduate majors does Clemson offer?

What is 80?

200

This is South Carolina's most valuable agricultural commodities

What are Broilers?

300

How many total members have been initiated into Sigma Alpha?

What is >19,000?

300

She influenced the work in animal behaviors in relation to handling and facility design at farms, ranches, and slaughter plants

Who is Temple Grandin?

300

U.S. Congress created the land-grand university system in which year?

What is 1862?

300

Clemson's Tiger Paw has a hook resulting from a scar on the tiger's foot that was used for the original logo. The Tiger Paw is rotated 30 degrees to the right, pointing to the traditional kickoff time for a college football game

What is 1 p.m.?

300

When was the South Carolina Department of Agriculture founded?

What is 1879?

400

Who were the five founders of Sigma Alpha?

Who is Burns, Davis, Matthews, Matthews, and McMillan?

400

She developed safe and sanitary methods for processing, storing and shipping dairy products.

Who is Mary Engle Pennington?

400

Animal and Veterinary Sciences leads with the most amount of undergraduate students out of all the departments, this department is second

What is Food, Nutriotion, and Packaging Sciences?

400

This Clemson tradition started before a football game against Wake Forest on September 23, 1967, where coach Frank Howard told his players if they gave 110% they can receive the privilege of this. Clemson won that game and players today continue this tradition before each Clemson football game. 

What is Howard's Rock/rubbing the Rock?

400

How many farms are there in South Carolina?

What is 25,000?

500

Sigma Alpha's mission

What is Cultivating Professional Women in Agriculture?
500

This pioneering American woman, often referred to as the "Mother of the Modern Farm," is known for her development of the first successful commercial strain of hybrid corn in the 1930s

Who is Mildred L. Petty?

500

This CAFLS graduate program specializes in topics such as integrated pest management, arthropod biodiversity, and arthropod biodiversity

What is Entomology?

500

Where the Clemson Tigers play their soccer matches

What is the Historic Riggs Field?

500

This SC county is the top producing county of collards

What is Lexington County?