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