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Did You Know?

Every year, North Dakota farmers and ranchers produce:

  • Wheat to make 108 billion sandwiches
  • Barley for 42 billion cans of beer
  • Potatoes to make 2 billion servings of french fries
  • Durum for 93 servings of pasta for every American
  • Beef for 2 billion burgers
  • Wool for 640,000 sweaters
  • Milk to fill1.6 billion glasses
  • Pork for 65 million pork chops
  • Sunflowers to fill over 400 million bags of sunflower seeds
  • Soybeans to make 122 billion crayons

Courtesy of the North Dakota Department of Agriculture