How Texas Farmers Are Running 247000 Farms And Ranches

Hello my friends today we will  continue to the fields and large   Farms of Texas to see our farming  and ranching work in this state with 127 million acres of land used for  agriculture Texas is not only famous for  

Its cattle herds and vast Cotton Fields but also  the state’s agricultural sector is also known for   the large-scale dairy farms peanut fields or  horse farms with up to hundreds of creatures foreign to USDA statistics by 2022  there are 247 800 farms in operation  

In Texas an increase of nearly  500 Farms when compared to 2021.   currently up to 97 of farms in Texas  are Family Farms which means most of   the farms and ranches here are organized  as a partnership or family company foreign we are currently on a goat farm  in Edwards County Southwest Texas  

Every year on this Farm about 215 baby goats  are born and about 35 percent of them are male   like dairy farms most of the male goats on  this Farm will be sent to slaughterhouses   shortly after birth because in the dairy  industry male goats are of no value foreign

To qualify for milk production the  goats here need to reach about 13 to   15 months of age which is when the female  goats began their first breeding season currently the most common ingredients  used to make fodder for dairy goats   are hay Alfalfa forage and cereals in  addition fresh grass is also used about  

Four times per week to enrich the diets  of hundreds of goats on this Farm foreign to USDA statistics in 2022 Texas ranks third in   the list of states with the most Dairy  goats in the United States with about 29  

000 heads distributed on 74 Farms the two  leading positions in the list of states with   the most Dairy goats in the United States are in  Wisconsin with 44 000 and California with 41 000. currently milking on most Dairy goat farms  is done four to six weeks after spawning  

This is also the period where the female goats  bring the highest milk production Milking for   each goat will be done twice a day and each  milking is about 12 hours apart goats are well   cared for both physically and mentally typically  yielding about six to seven pounds of milk per  

Day and goat milking usually lasts 280 to 300 days  depending on the breed each year the United States   produces about 735 million pounds of goat milk  and 7.6 of goat milk is produced on farms in Texas in addition to goats and cattle  Texas agriculture is also known  

For raising chickens and raising quails for eggs here’s what’s going on at a quail incubator  in the town of Panhandle North Texas   here this worker is loading tens  of thousands of quail eggs into   the incubator and the new batch  of quails will hatch in 17 days

Newly hatched quails are  about half the size of chicks   in the wild they are the preferred prey of  carnivores such as wild cats Foxes or rats baby quail cages need lights to keep warm  and they will stay here for three weeks  

Before moving to another place according  to statistics in 2021 in the United States   there are about 185 Quail farms in  operation and 27 of them are in Texas most quails are raised in Texas  for the purpose of air production  

In addition there are also a few arms that combine  air production and white Quail meat production basically quail egg Farms are designed and  operated quite like large-scale chicken farms   after about two months of age the  female quail begins to lay eggs  

With a nutritious diet each female quail  can lay between 250 and 300 eggs per year it is estimated that about 1.2 billion  quail eggs are produced in the United   States each year and the majority of quail  eggs are consumed in the domestic Market

In recent years China has always  been the country with the largest   Quail Lake production in the world  with about 184 billion eggs produced   per year accounting for 37 percent of  the world quail egg production foreign goodbye ranchers will go to the  forest of Texas to see how the  

Process of planting and harvesting  thousands of pine trees happens December to February each year is  usually the time when pine tree   planting takes place in pie producing Forest areas   due to the uneven terrain the planting of pine  trees in most areas is done manually these workers  

Will plan a minimum of 650 trees per acre and the  maximum number per acre is approximately 800 trees currently there are 49 different types of pine in  the United States of which Oriental White Pine is   the most common species and this is also the  pine species with the highest economic value

Foreign to statistics from  the U.S forest Service in 2022   in Texas there are about 63 million acres of  land covered by forests in which Pine is the   most grown tree with more than 13 million Acres  accounting for 21 of the state’s Forest Area

The time from planting to when pine  trees are eligible for Harvest usually   lasts from 15 to 20 years depending  on the variety and purpose of use   the older the Pine Forest the  more economic value they bring currently the majority of pine  trees in Texas are harvested on  

They are 25 to 30 years old and once  harvested millions of pine logs are   shipped to factories to produce Furniture  floors panels Roofing or paper production the next place we visit is the Sorghum field in  deaf Smith County West of Texas between July and  

October each year the Sorghum Harvest takes  place in most of the Eastern fields in Texas   for many years now Texas has always been the  second largest producer of sorghum in the United   States with about 2.15 million Acres followed  by Kansas in first place with 3.2 million Acres  

Each year Texas Farmers Harvest  about 51 million bushels of sorghum   and it collects about 350 million dollars  in cash in addition the sorghum-related   industries generate approximately 1.3  billion dollars in revenue for Texas hello my friends today we are going to  visit New York the third most populous  

State in the U.S to see how farming  and livestock work in this state when it comes to the state of New York  we often think of the most modern city   in the United States with about 8.5  million people living and working there  

However New York is also one of  the states with a fairly developed   agricultural industry with about 7.1 million  acres of land used for farming and livestock   famous agricultural products of this state are  milk cattle calves corn and many other fruits

According to statistics in 2021 in New York  there are about 33 000 farms and 753 farmers   markets in operation of that 34 of the state’s  Farms are concentrated in the Finger Lake area   which is considered the  agricultural center of the state we are currently on a dairy farm in Wyoming County  

Western New York state it is home  to more than 300 adult dairy cows every morning these dairy cows will be herded to  the pasture right next to the farm to freely feed   for about three hours currently in New York there  are about 3 500 dairy farms in operation and the  

Number of dairy cows in the state is about 626  000 heads every day each adult dairy cow will   need to eat about 25 to 35 pounds of fresh grass  to maintain milk production in addition other  

Foods such as grain will also be used when they  return to the farm in the late afternoon hundreds   of dairy cows will be herded to the sheltered  area where they’ll be fed more roughage and grain this is the milking process at  another dairy farm in New York  

Here about 800 dairy cows will be  milked within three and a half hours   each dairy cow here usually produces between  six to eight gallons of milk per day foreign process is complete millions of pounds  of milk will be transported to a factory  

About three miles away for processing and  bottling before being sold on the market with nearly 4 000 dairy farms in operation  each year New York produces about 15.7 billion   pounds of milk and it is also the fourth  largest milk producing state in the country  

In addition the dairy industry in the state  also creates about 27 000 shops each year next we’ll go to a duck egg Farm in New  York’s Journeys District which is home   to more than 400 ducks in the egg harvesting stage

Currently there are about 87 active duck farms  in New York with about 1.3 million Ducks the   majority of ducks here are raised in the  state for the purpose of egg harvesting with a nutritious diet each duck at this Farm  can lay between 215 and 240 eggs per year

According to statistics in 2021 in the  United States there will be about 31.3   million Ducks raised for meat and eggs  in particular the majority of duck farms   across the country are concentrated  in two states Wisconsin and Indiana goodbye ranchers we’re going to a large cornfield  

In New York’s Orange County to see  how the Harvest of corn goes on today corn is the state’s main crop with  about 1.1 million Acres planted annually   making New York the 17th state in  the nation in terms of corn acreage

In New York sweet corn is not as  popular as in Florida or California   instead the bulk of corn production  in the state is grain and sillage   annual sales of corn silage in New York is  around 313 million dollars and corn makes up  

Sixty percent of dairy feed in the state foreign  s in New York we cannot ignore apple farms because   this is the second largest upper growing state  in the United States second only to Washington currently in New York there are about  700 apple farms of different sizes in  

Operation and each year the apple harvest  from this state is about 613 000 tons foreign to the Farms of Western New York State  we now go to a farm in Ballston Lake area   to see how Farmers produce millions of tons  of peas here peas were amongst the first crops  

Grown and harvested in New York New York Farmers  Harvest about 17 000 acres for peas each year   in New York farmers will plant pea  seeds outdoors in early to mid April   peas are commonly grown in fields ranging from  20 to 100 acres November every year is usually  

The time when peas are harvested in this  state with these state-of-the-art harvesting   machines Farmers here can Harvest around  eight-shirts/” target=”_blank”>teen thousand pounds of peas per hour   once harvested New York peas are usually shipped  to the factory to be processed into frozen peas

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