Agriculture in the news

Agriculture is Everywhere all the Time

Agriculture is all around us, all the time. In the supermarket, clothing stores, and even in your house! Today I will be talking about agriculture in the media. As you may know the Fort Worth stock show recently ended last weekend. Thousands of exhibitors and live stocks animals attend in hopes of winning the grand or reserve grand champion title. 

Types of animals shown at the show: 

Cattle     Chickens     Rabbits       Ducks     Goats      Pigs     Sheep 

Most of the animals raised by the 4-H or FFA members will become food for people all over the country. Most of them are put on the meat truck after the show is over and head to the butcher plant to be processed and sold as meat to the public. In total there were about 29,000 livestock animals show and about 11,000 were market animals were shown and sold/ took to butcher during the 23 day event (star telegram).

The grand champion steer "Here I Am" was owned and shown by, Flint Newman. He got named that Grand champion at the 2014 Fort worth stock show on Friday. He sold the next day on Saturday for $200.000. This was $5,000 less than lasts years grand champion.

watch the video here!

Sakmari, Elvira. ""Here I Am" Named Grand Champion Steer." NBCDFW [Fort worth] 7 Feb. 2014: n. Web. Print.

Bahari, Sarah. "Stock Show Wraps Up, Attendance Tops 1 Million." Star Telegram. N.p., 9 Feb. 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2014.