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​Reinke Irrigation Is Honored To Work With Farmers, Ranchers and Livestock Producers 

​​Here at Reinke Manufacturing, we are honored to work with farmers, ranchers and livestock producers on a daily basis. Your perseverance, hard work and stewardship is a great example for all of us to follow. So today, on #NationalAgDay, join us in thanking farmers, ranchers, livestock producers and all those involved in agriculture!

• Each American farmer feeds about 144 people; each Canadian farmer feeds about 120 people.
• The world population will grow from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. Farmers will have to grow more than 60 percent more food than what is now produced.
• 50,000 fewer gallons of water are needed to grow an irrigated acre of corn today as compared to 20 years ago.
• Agriculture provides most all of what you eat, use and wear on a daily basis.
• Today’s farmers produce 262 percent more food with 2 percent fewer inputs (labor, seeds, feed, fertilizer, etc.), than in 1950.
• Farming employs more than 26 million American and Canadian workers.
• There are around 2.4 million farms in the United States and Canada.
• Approximately 97% of U.S. farms are operated by families, family partnerships, or family corporations.
• Canada produces more than 125 different fruit and vegetable crops from coast to coast.
• Raising beef cattle is the single largest segment of American agriculture.
• The average dairy cow produces seven gallons of milk a day, 2,100 pounds of milk a month, and 46,000 glasses of milk a year.
• One pound of wool can make 10 miles of yarn.
• There are 150 yards (450 feet) of wool yarn in a baseball
• Soybeans are an important ingredient for the production of crayons. In fact one acre of soybeans producers 82,368 crayons.

For more information about National Ag Day on March 21, 2017.

Stat sources: The Agriculture Council of America,  American Farm Bureau Federation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Statistics Canada, CropLife America