#AgFacts Controlled-environment farms such as greenhouses, hydroponic systems, and vertical farms use smart climate technology that constantly adjusts light, humidity, and temperature to keep plants comfortable, even during winter.
🚚 5. Cold-chain distribution volume spikes 25–30% during Thanksgiving week as perishables move across the country.
Source: Food Logistics Magazine + American Trucking Associations
#FoodFacts #FarmFacts #FoodAndAgricultureFacts #AgFacts #FoodandAg
#AgFacts #Facts Bringing STEM & AG Together through LEGO!
LEGO really does make “plants from plants” 200+ botanical/soft elements from sugarcane-based bio-PE, and about half of sets include at least one making this a great STEM talking point for materials & bio-based packaging.
#AgFacts #AgCareers #Opportunities 30–40% of the U.S. food supply is wasted—innovation opportunities from packaging to cold-chain analytics.
#AgFacts #AgTeach 15,005 school-based ag-teacher positions were on the books in 2024—the highest ever recorded. #factFriday
High-speed bread lines can shape and slice up to 10,000 pieces an hour, thanks to conical rounders and automated ovens. -> https://f.mtr.cool/ptsccmpqse
#AgFacts #TWGFacts #SandwichMonth
Happy Fact Friday! 🍑
As National Peach Month kicks off, let’s peel back the layers of America’s peach supply chain—from orchard drones and irrigation tech to cold-chain trucks and flavor labs—showing just how many careers ripen behind every juicy bite.
#AgFacts #AgFriday
Why It Matters:
U.S. eaters now average 8.6 lb of avocados per person each year, and imports—mostly from Mexico—generate roughly $4 billion in U.S. GDP and 33,051 domestic jobs through warehousing, trucking, and retail.
#Avocados #AgFacts #Agriculture #Food
Cheesecake facts! #AgCareers #AgFacts
🚜 Tractor joined Unicode in 2010; ag advocates now push for an autonomous‑tractor emoji to reflect modern equipment. #Food #Agriculture #WorldEmojiDay #AgFacts
🌽 Corn ranks among the top 50 most‑tweeted food emojis every summer, peaking during county‑fair season. #Food #Ag #AgFacts #WorldEmojiDay
Steam-peel tech: Modern fry plants remove potato skins with high-pressure steam in six seconds, cutting waste versus knife peeling. #NationalFryDay #AgFacts
Frozen favorites: More than 70 percent of U.S. spuds go to processing, and frozen fries account for about 4.5 billion pounds a year #AgFacts
Super spud states: Idaho and Washington supply over half the nation’s fry-grade russets; their high-solids tubers fry faster and stay crisp longer. #AgFacts
Potato power: U.S. farms harvested about 424 million hundred-weight of potatoes last season—roughly 21 million tons #AgFacts
Pair those fries with America’s most-poured ketchup:
650 million bottles of Heinz® Ketchup leave Kraft Heinz plants every year.
#AgFacts #AgCareers
Manure digesters turn barn waste into renewable natural gas; one 2,000-cow system can power roughly 900 U.S. homes a year. #AgTech #AgFacts #Cows
Robotic milking systems now handle about 20 percent of U.S. dairy cows, letting animals choose when to be milked and cutting labor by up to 30 percent. #AgFacts
Sauce science
• Each 20-oz ketchup bottle uses roughly 2.5 lb of tomatoes.
• Mustard-seed acreage (mostly in North Dakota) is up 15 percent since 2020 to meet summer cookout demand.
#AgFacts
Tear-free tech: BASF’s Sunions—the first commercially “tearless” onions—became available to all U.S. growers for the 2024 season after more than a decade of selective breeding. #AgFacts
Giant harvest: FAO counts roughly 111 million tons of bulb onions (plus shallots) grown worldwide in 2023, with China and India producing nearly half. #AgFacts
Food security: UNEP estimates that effective refrigeration could save about 526 million tonnes of food every year—enough to feed 950 million people. #AgFacts
Food-loss factor: An estimated 13 % of all food is lost simply because it never gets cold enough after harvest. #AgFacts
#AgFacts AI on the line: Robotics startup Glacier has installed AI-vision robots that sort mixed recycling streams at speeds humans can’t match, boosting material recovery that feeds upcycling processors.
#AgFacts Careers in food and agriculture span over hundreds unique job types—from drone operators and agribusiness analysts to fermentation engineers and public health officials.
#AgCareers
#AgFacts The global food and ag system must produce 50% more food by 2050 to meet population demand—without expanding land use.
That goal depends on workforce readiness and innovation.
📎 Source: FAO, “How to Feed the World in 2050”
#AgFacts 🧃 Insects like black soldier fly larvae are being turned into sustainable protein for animal feed and even human snacks.
🍇 Precision viticulture (for grapes and wine) uses drones and soil sensors to target irrigation — reducing water use up to 30%. #AgFacts
2️⃣ Cows have best friends—and stress when they’re separated. Livestock management isn’t just science, it’s empathy. 🐄 #AgFacts
