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• Because of efficient agriculture management and production practices, American consumers are able to spend less of their disposable income on food. Americans spend only 10 percent of their income on food, whereas the French spend 18 percent, British spend 22 percent, Italians spend 23 percent, the Japanese spend 26 percent, and consumers in India spend up to 51 percent of their income on food.
• The average U.S. farmer raises enough food to feed 144 other people. In 1940, that number was 19.
  
• Less than 1 percent of America's farms and ranches are owned by non-family corporations. The other 99 percent are owned by individuals, family partnerships or family corporations.
  
• The average American can earn enough disposable income to pay for food for a year in 40 days.
  
• The average person consumes 584 pounds of dairy products a year.
  
• Americans consume 254.1 eggs per year.
  

• Daily slaughter capacity for pork production is 407,875 head.
  
• There are 800,000 cattle producers in the United States.
  
• The average beef cattle operation is just 40 head.
  
• Herds with more than 100 head of cattle represent 51 percent of the beef cow inventory.
  
• Cattle spend 12-18 months on range or pasture land and an additional 3-6 months in a feedlot where they are fed high protein grain-based diets and gain 2-4 pounds a day.
  
• The average dairy cow produces seven gallons of milk a day.
  
• The U.S. dairy industry produces 170 billion pounds of milk a year - that's the equivalent of 19.7 billion gallons.
  
• The average dairy herd consists of 99 cows.
  
• U.S. pork consumed 265 million bushels of soybeans in 2004.
  
• There are roughly 60,500 pork operations in the United States. These operations contain more than 52 million head of hogs.
  
• Total U.S. egg production was 74 billion table eggs in 2003.
  
• The average number of egg-laying hens in the United States is 278.3 million.
  
• There are 11 companies with greater than 5 million layers, 64 egg-producing companies with more than 1 million layers, and 260 egg-producing companies with 75,000 hens or more. These 260 companies represent about 95 percent of all the layers in the U.S.
  
• Animal agriculture consumed more than 23 million tons of soybean meal in 2004.
  

• Property taxes from animal agriculture brought in $2.4 billion for the United States.
  
• Animal agriculture in the United States accounted for more than $16 billion in income and sales tax.
  
• Animal agriculture employs more than 2.5 million Americans.
  
• Net earnings from animal agriculture are more than $73 billion a year.
  
• The average income from livestock on farms is $38,438. The average income from a beef cattle operation in 2004 was $74,200.
  
• U.S. dairy farmers receive less than $1.32 per gallon of milk they produce.
  
• The average retail price of milk is $2.76.
  
• Egg exports are $33.7 million a year.