Kings County Ag Facts

• Kings County's ten leading commodities are milk, cotton, cattle & calves, alfalfa-hay, turkeys, wheat, tomatoes, pistachios,  corn silage, and peaches
• A delivered pizza more than likely contains mozzarella cheese produced by Leprino Foods in Lemoore
• If you've used Kingsford Charcoal for your barbeque this summer, the bag was made in Hanford at Exopac, LLC
• 18% of employment in Kings County is due to agriculture
• Kings County grows approximately 4,025 acres of garlic, which comprises 5.8% of the state's total acreage
• If you've used tomato paste or stewed tomatoes in your spaghetti, chances are they came from Hanford's Del Monte plant
• Nationally, CA ranked first in nonfat dry milk production, first in butter production, and second in cheese production
• 84% of the land area in Kings County is farm land
• 681 acres is the average farm size in Kings County
• The most prolific milk producing cow the world has ever known, No. 289, lived in Kings County for 19 years and gave 54,070 gallons of milk - enough to fill more than 8 60-foot tanker trucks
• California produces most of the grapes grown in the United States
• Combined processing within Kings County alone exceeds 7 million pounds of milk per day
• Honey production in Kings County outpaces several states including Colorado and Washington
• California produces one out of every five glasses of milk consumed in the nation
• If you make your spaghetti with bottled sauce, you may have used the Classico Brand, made in Lemoore at SK Foods  
• California's agricultural abundance includes 350 different crops
• 90% of the broccoli grown commercially in the U.S. is grown in California
• Kings County produces approximately 7% of California's honey
• The average length of the growing season in Kings County is 257 days
• 15 creameries are located with 30 miles of Kings County, including Kraft, Haagen-Daz, Marquez Bros. International, Land 'O Lakes and Leprino Foods
• There are over 1,100 farms in Kings County
• Agriculture supports about one in every 10 California jobs
• Five counties - Tulare, Merced, Stanislaus, San Bernardino and Kings - account for 67% of all milk produced in California
• Almonds, artichokes, dates, figs, raisins, kiwifruit, nectarines, olives, cling peaches, persimmons, pistachios, dried plums are grown only in California, the state that leads the nation in production of 60 other commodities
• 78% of Kings County farmland is protected under the Williamson Act Contract
• 29.6% of agricultural producers were women
• California has 88,000 farming operations that account for 13% of the national gross cash receipts from farming
• New research supports Almonds' role in weight maintenance and disease protection.
• US paper currency isn't paper at all...it's a blend of 75% cotton lint and 25% linen. A 480 pond bale of cotton can be made into 313,6000 $100.00 bills!
• In nature turkeys can fly 55 miles an hour, run 25 miles an hour, and live up to four years