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I find it interesting that...

• One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.
• A typical, full grown Holstein cow weighs about 1,400 pounds and produces 60 pounds of milk per day.
• Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
• It takes 12 Honeybees to produce 1 tablespoon of honey.
• Pigs can't sweat. Pigs have no sweat glands, that is why they roll around in mud to cool off.
• Hamburger meat from a single steer will make about 720 quarter pound hamburger patties. That's enough for a family of 4 to enjoy hamburgers each day for nearly 6 months.
• A dairy cow consumes 35 gallons of water, 20 pounds of grain and concentrated feed and 35 pounds of hay or silage (a mixture of corn and grass) in just one day.
• Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Mrs. Lincoln drank the milk.
• A Kangaroo can not jump if it's tail is off the ground.
• It is impossible for pigs to look up in the sky.
• The most expensive cow in the world was sold for $1.3 million.
• Sheep can survive up to two weeks buried in a snow drift.
• There was no grass during the time of the dinosaurs. Grass evolved from bamboo-like plants only 24 million years ago.
• It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth. Between 10 and 20 tons of water must pass through the roots of an acre of corn before one bushel of corn will be produced.
• Almost all of our breakfast cereals are made of grass. Oats, barley, corn and wheat are all different varieties of grass and are all descended from the same botanical species. Furthermore, most of the sugar we eat also comes from grass (sugar cane), as do most of our alcoholic beverages.
• Straight from the cow, the temperature of cow’s milk is about 97 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Products we use in our everyday lives come from plant and animal byproducts produced by America's farmers and ranchers: - Health care: Pharmaceuticals, surgical sutures, ointments, latex gloves, x-ray film, gelatin for capsules and heart valves.
• A cow has 4 stomachs. They are: the rumen, where the food is first stored, the reticulum where food that has been more thoroughly chewed is stored once the cow has chewed the cud and has swallowed it; the omasum where extra water is squeezed out, and finally the food goes to the abomasum. Some of the digested food is then stored in the cow’s udder where it is made into milk.
• There are 914 different breeds of sheep in the world. There are 35 breeds in the U.S.