1. Student Name Class Period
Farm Facts
Student Name
Class Period

2. How are You connected to Agriculture? (page 23)
Products we use in our everyday lives come from
Personal Care
Construction
Health Care
Manufacturing
Entertainment
Education
Sports
Printing
Transportation

3. How many people does one farmer feed?
Year
Number of people 1 farmer feeds.
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Today

4. Who pays the least for food?

5. What does the U. S. Department of Agriculture spend $88
What does the U.S. Department of Agriculture spend $88.8 billion dollars on?

6. An acre is about the size of ???
Opportunity cost
Opportunity cost is the cost incurred (sacrifice) by choosing one option over the next best alternative (which may be equally desired). Thus, opportunity cost is the cost of pursuing one choice instead of another.
An acre is about the size of ???
An acre produces ??? Pounds of cotton or ??? Pounds of strawberries.
A farmer could choose to sell an acre of farm land. An acre can be divided up into 4 home lots. If each home lot sells for $100,000, How much is the acre worth if the farmer sells it?

7. If a person spends one dollar on food, what percentage of that $ goes to the FARMER and what percentage goes to OFF FARM costs? (Look at page 15 and change the percentages below)

8. The Farmer gets 19 cents out of every dollar spent, but he has to pay his bills.
PROFIT = INCOME – COSTS ($ collected minus the bills!)
The Farmers Expenses include:

9. What is the U.S. Share of world production?