Farmers Weekly Kids Connect Campaign

Facts about farming

Did you know that…..

A single cow produces enough milk to fill nearly 26,000 cans of drink a year
Cows have an acute sense of smell – they can smell something up to six miles away
A pig’s squeal can reach 115 decibels – about the same as a Jumbo Jet at take-off
Pigs are distant relatives of the hippopotamus. They do not have sweat glands, so roll in the mud to keep cool
There are 35m million sheep and lambs in the UK - more than the number of people living in Canada (33m)
Sheep are shorn in early summer to help them keep cool, producing 60,000t of wool each year
One medium sized potato contains 45% of the vitamin C we need each day to stay healthy
You could make about 1500 loaves of bread out of 1t of wheat
1 tonne of wheat contains 21 million grains
One hectare of oilseed rape – the crop with yellow flowers - could produce enough biodiesel to power a family car 12,000 miles.
We eat over 10bn eggs a year, which is 29m every day. Placed end to end these would reach from the earth to the moon
Male ducks can’t quack!