04/11/08 Ag Tidbits

If you ever get into an Ag trivia contest today's light lesson might be helpful. I'm Jeff Keane; I'll be right back with the facts, just the facts. Sometimes it's entertaining and interesting to look at fun facts put in everyday terms like these from www.agday.org. *Hamburger meat from a single steer will make about 720 quarter pound hamburger patties, which lets a family of four enjoy hamburgers each day for nearly six months. *If you ate a sandwich for breakfast lunch and dinner, it would take 168 days to eat the amount of bread produced from one bushel of wheat. *Farmers receive approximately five cents from each loaf of bread sold. *A pig can run a 7-minute mile. Whoa! That beats me. *Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings, and relieves the itch of athletes foot. That might make it a little easier to put up with that eye-watering nonsense. *Americans will consume 1.12 billion pound of popcorn a year. *One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop. Now here's a fact that could scare you to death unless you're a dyed-in-the-cotton vegetarian. 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. That's too much. I just can't go on! I'm Jeff Keane.