This week I am honoring farmer, ranchers and producers, Thursday is Thank a Farmer Thursday, it's important to me personally, as well as others. But why thank them? Who cares? Thank them because they supply us with products, and care because they care about you.
Today, the average U.S. farmer feeds 155 people. In 1960, a farmer fed just 26 people. American farmers ship more than $100 billion of their crops and products to many nations. Farmers are a direct lifeline to more than 24 million U.S. jobs in all kinds of industries. U.S. farmers produce about 40 percent of the world's corn, using only 20 percent of the total area harvested in the world.
These facts, say it all. Let's take it back a couple years when these farmers great great great grandfathers started up a little ole' farm maybe with a cow and some chickens. This isn't true for everyone, just simply, a example. Back then you either lived and worked on a farm or lived in the city. Agriculture was very important for the United States to develop, who was the first people to set foot in America? Pilgrims . As the story goes, the "friendly Indians" helped out the pilgrims showing them how to grow produce and from there everything started to spread like wildfire. They are yet forgotten and often looked over, but when in the presents of myself, they are honored and respected..they are farmers.
Today, the average U.S. farmer feeds 155 people. In 1960, a farmer fed just 26 people. American farmers ship more than $100 billion of their crops and products to many nations. Farmers are a direct lifeline to more than 24 million U.S. jobs in all kinds of industries. U.S. farmers produce about 40 percent of the world's corn, using only 20 percent of the total area harvested in the world.
These facts, say it all. Let's take it back a couple years when these farmers great great great grandfathers started up a little ole' farm maybe with a cow and some chickens. This isn't true for everyone, just simply, a example. Back then you either lived and worked on a farm or lived in the city. Agriculture was very important for the United States to develop, who was the first people to set foot in America? Pilgrims . As the story goes, the "friendly Indians" helped out the pilgrims showing them how to grow produce and from there everything started to spread like wildfire. They are yet forgotten and often looked over, but when in the presents of myself, they are honored and respected..they are farmers.
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