Americans raise over 256 million turkeys. The biggest producer of turkeys is Minnesota, followed by North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri and California.
Americans raise 649 million pounds of cranberries, 1.6 billion pounds of sweet potatoes, and 998 million pounds of pumpkin.
Americans raise 649 million pounds of cranberries, 1.6 billion pounds of sweet potatoes, and 998 million pounds of pumpkin.
In addition to domestically grown and raised Thanksgiving food, the U.S. also imports $5.2 million worth of live turkeys from Canada, $2.2 million worth of cranberries (also from Canada), and $2.3 million dollars worth of sweet potatoes -- from the Dominican Republic.
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Boy your just full of turkey
ReplyDeleteand cranberry information, arn't
you? Hope they enjoy their turkey
on the space trip.It might be
better than ours. Ha.
Both Dike and Ackley ended up
getting second place in their
volleyball games. Ackley had won
two games and then Tripoli came
back and got the last three.
Enough for tonight.
Since I'm the one making the turkey, I can tell how confident you are in my cooking skills...
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