Saying “Thank you”

When we all sit down at the family dinner table this Thanksgiving and count our many blessings, let us be sure to take a moment to acknowledge the contributions of our nation’s farmers and farmworkers! Production numbers for some of the more popular Thanksgiving staples:

• Sweet Corn: 7.4 billion pounds

• Green Beans: 2 billion pounds

• Cranberries: 1.3 billion pounds

• Potatoes: 4.4 billion pounds

• Pumpkin: 1.6 billion pounds

• Sweet Potatoes: 3.2 billion pounds

• Rice: 18 billion pounds

• 46 million turkeys