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Rockingham — 2,046 and you might like to know that Pittsylvania is third with 2,026.)
9. (The 1982 census lists Charles City County with just 70 farms as the lowest. Although if you said James City County you would have been close, they have just 71.)
10. (The farmers of Virginia are making hay. In fact, 953,821 acres of it.)
11. (Not quite, Virginia produced 500 million pounds of apples in 1982. Assuming every man woman and child of Virginia’s more than 5.5 million people had access to the apples, it would come to an apple every other day.)
12. (You may want more than others, because turkey is such good eating, but on the average the answer is you betcha. Virginia sold 183,474,000 pounds of turkey in 1982. As the average consumption is 10.8 pounds, we could supply almost three times that average.)
13. (Quite a ways. In 1982,Virginia produced 16.8 million bushels. It would take 18,300 trucks that would stretch, bumper to bumper some 64 miles. What a traffic jam that would cause.) *
14. (Virginia produced 5.3 million square feet for sale in 1982. It would cover about 25 miles of Highway 1, which sounds like it might be a good idea, but the Highway Department might object to having to cut that much grass.)
15. (Virginia produces 929 million eggs. Lay them end to end, carefully of course, and they would cover 2,989 miles. They’re much better on the table than in the road.)
16. (City folks see nothing but pavement, suburbia nothing but houses, but farmers see 39 percent of the land everyday. That’s where they make their living and supply us with food and fiber we need.)
17. (Not much and in the drought year of 1983 it was even less. What do you say to $1,890.)
18. (It’ll never happen, but if it did, you’d have 51.)
19. (The first commercial crop of peanuts was grown in Virginia 1844. By 1868, peanuts had become a chief money crop in Southampton. Today, according to the lastest available statistics, Southampton is the number one producing county in the entire United States.)
20. (Surprise! It’s 13 billion dollars and that’s larger than the assets for U.S. Steel (11 billion,) Dow Chemical (10 billion) and or as much as the total assets of Safeway (3 billion), K-Mart (5 billion) and J.C. Penney (5 billion) combined.)
If you scored between 15 and 20 correct, we need you to spread the word about agriculture, because the vast minority certainly knows less than you do, and they ought to know.
If you were correct 10 to 14 times, good for you. But don’t keep the information to yourself, pass it on.
If you scored 5 to 9 correct, you may want to do a little more research to bring up your agricultural IQ.
If your scored four or less, you must be far removed from life on the farm. There is a whole world out there you ought to know about. The grocery store isn’t where all that food originates. Let’s give the farmer the credit he is due.
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