How Do American Farmers Produce Billions Of Tons Of Food

Today we are going to some large fields in the United States to see how great agriculture in this country producesbillions of tons of food in recent years major food crops grown in the United States include soybeans corn potatoes wheat sweet potatoes and barley currently the United States only.

Imports 20 percent of the food it consumes because it's agriculture can't produce a largeamount of food for the entire country.

Here's what's going on in a warehousenear a soybean Farm in Minnesota these farmers are preparing billions of soybean seeds tostart a new crop according to statistics in soybeans are grown in 15 states acrossthe country of which Illinois Iowa and Minnesota are the states with the largest soybean growingareas after billions of soybean seeds have been prepared this tractor will be used tosow the seeds its task is to sow about 128 seats per acre each year in Minnesotaabout 7.7 million Acres of Farm land are used to produce soybeans.

Meanwhile, soybean growing areas across the country account for 88.3 million Acres these are two-week-old soybean plants the time from sowing seeds to harvesting soybeans usually lasts about85 days basically soybeans are a very easy plant to cultivate the main tasks of the farmers here is usually spraying herbicides and fungicides and providing enough water for soybean plants to grow this is a field of soybeans more than twomonths old and they are only about two weeks away from the harvesting process in Minnesota most soybeans are grown in counties like westika.

Nobles and Nicolae after nearly three months since seeding everything here is ready to start a new harvest season thousands of harvesters and workers will flock to the soybean fields to work in 2021 soybean production in Minnesotais about 356 million bushels or 21.3 billion

00:03:07.280 pounds meanwhile soybean production across the country is 4.4 billion bushels.

Currently Illinois is the state with the largest soybean production in the country with 672 million bushels accounting for 16 of the nationalproduction Iowa is also a major soybean producer with 494 million bushels or 11 of productionin the United States up to 79 of soybeans are used for animal feed with poultry being the largest consumer of soybeans in addition the country also exports about 1.7 billionbushels of soybeans per year with an export value of about 26 billion dollars.

Field in Michigan to see how billions of bushels of corn are cultivated and harvested here the end of April every year is the time when the sowing process takes place in this corn field this giant machineis used to sow about 34 000 seeds per acre in 2021 in Michigan about 2.25 million Acres of Farm land will be used to grow corn.

Meanwhile, the total corn area in 2021 in the United States is about 96.3 million acres this is a one month old corn field currently each acreof corn in the United States needs about 600 gallons of water over its lifetime mostcorn varieties today need about 100 to 115 days to be harvested according to statisticsfrom the United States Department of Agriculture.

Iowa is the state with the largest corn growing area in the country with 12.9 million Acres in second place is Illinois with 11 million Acres almost four months after seeding millions of corn plants in this field are ready tobe harvested thousands of agricultural machines and trucks will be moved here to work in recent years.

The United States has always been the largest producer of corn kernels in the worldwith about 15.1 billion bushels per year a county for 34 of global corn production the states with the largest corn production in the United States are Iowa with 2.7 billion bushels Illinois with 2.2 billion bushels and Nebraska with 1.7 billion bushels currently 45 percent of corn kernel production in the country is used for animal feed 44 is converted to ethanol and just 10 percent is used for food foreign this is the ongoing harvest of a wheat field in Kansas State mid-june is the time when the harvest takes place in most of the wheat farms in Kansas according to data in 2022 the wheat area in Kansas is 7.6 million Acres which is also the state with the largest wheat area in the country currently Nation wide 37.7 million Acres of agricultural land are used to grow wheat and the yield is 1.65 billion bushels after harvesting billions of bushels of wheat will be transported by a truck to warehouses for storage.

Almond farms in California, process of cultivating and harvesting tons of almonds happens the process of planting almond trees usuallybegins in mid-February this is the right time for the seedlings to develop buds these covers will be used to protect seedlings from stem borers and limit sunlight foreign about two years from planting the almond treeswill need to be pruned pruning almond trees is usually done at the beginning of winter time from planting almond trees to harvesting the first crop usually lasts threeto four years.

Almonds are a water intensive plant so this trip irrigationsystem needs to be operated on a regular basis almond trees usually have an average life span of 25 to 28 years and from the 20th year onwards the fruit yield of this tree begins to decrease foreign blossoms usually appear between February and March and during this time millions of honeybees are used to pollinate the flowers, if you look at it from a distance you will see the almond flour looks quite similar tothe flowers of Plum and pear trees foreign the time from flowering to harvesting almonds usually lasts from five to six months depending on the climate do you feel satisfied looking at these images everything here is ready to start a new harvest.

This machine will be used to shake the Almond Tree until all the fruit on the tree falls to the ground the process of harvesting almonds is quite similar to the harvesting of olive or cherry Orchards will then be loaded up onto the truck by this machine in some countries in the Middle East the almonds after fall into the ground aredried in the Sun for about a week before being harvested this machine is used to harvest in the fields of several years old almonds hundreds of tons of almonds after harvesting will be transported to the factory for processing and packaging this is the number of almonds is too large and cannot be processed all at once they will be gathered here before being transferred to the factory.