KIDS' CORNER
Agriculture is Everywhere!

Can you live without agriculture? 

Did you know that the sheets you sleep on come from agriculture?

Some fibers in sheets are made from cotton - a product of agriculture! 

Did you take a bath or shower with soap? 

Oil from corn and soybeans and fat from cattle were used in making that soap.

Did you have breakfast this morning? 

Cereal, eggs, milk, bacon, pancakes, toast and juice all come from agriculture.

Did you do your homework on paper?

Paper comes from agriculture too - trees!  Also, corn and soybean by-products

help hold the ink on the paper.

Did you wear your comfortable tennis shoes to school? 

Leather is another agriculture crop. 

So go ahead, just try to have

a day without agriculture. 

You can't do it!

AGRICULTURE FUN ZONE

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Sci4Kids

Total Kentucky acres: 25,388,314
Acres in farms: 13,700,000
(Farmland accounts for 54% of the total acreage in KY.)
Average farm size: 163 acres
Farms producing crops: 42,128 
Farms producing livestock: 47,100 
Forestland: 12 million acres 
Acres in hay production: 2,100,000 
Average age of farmer: 55
State soil: Crider
State drink: Milk

Dairy farms: 1,614
Cattle producers: 40,000+ 
Tobacco sales: $339.9 million in 2005
Kentucky agricultural exports: $1,073.8 million in 2005
State tree - Tulip Tree
State bird - Kentucky Cardinal
State flower - Goldenrod 
State fish - Kentucky Bass 
State horse - Thoroughbred
State fruit - Blackberry