6-20 IAN Did You Know

 Every once in a while I get a press release from the University of Idaho’s agricultural and life sciences college. It has all of these nifty little fax that they title… Did you know? I thought I would give you a few because they’re interesting.

$7.4 billion

Estimated annual loss of productivity in 64 crops grown in the U.S. caused by noxious weeds. This loss affects cost of food you buy.

DID YOU KNOW?

2,743 gallons

Average amount of milk produced by one Idaho dairy cow in 2010. That’s more than double an Idaho cow’s average milk production in 1970—1,138 gallons—thanks to dairy innovation, research, and education.

DID YOU KNOW?

5,034

The number of Idaho 4-Hers living on a farm in 2011. That was 15% of Idaho’s 33,163 4-H members in 2011.

DID YOU KNOW?

237,874

The number of Idaho residents receiving food stamps in 2012. That’s 15% of Idaho’s population and up from 87,104 recipients in 2007 before the economic crash—a 37% increase in four years. 

DID YOU KNOW?

86.6 MILLION

Gallons of groundwater pumped by Idaho residents every day for domestic use. Water comes from aquifers statewide.

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111.3 bushels per acre

Average amount of wheat produced per irrigated acre in Idaho in 2010, compared to 64.5 bushels per acre produced on non-irrigated wheat in Idaho.