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The Pork Checkoff’s Quick Facts online resource provides a snapshot of the pork industry through statistics and infographics, which can be downloaded and used by media, educators, states, students, consumers and others. You can check it out at pork.org/quickfacts.
Quick Facts provides extensive information that includes:
- The history of pork
- Pork production today
- The environment
- Pork safety
- Frequently asked questions
- Statistics on hog operations, market share, exports, and even Canadian statistics
- Other informative information as well
Additional Quick Facts and Figures about Virginia
- Swine rank 13th in Virginia’s top 20 agricultural commodities, with $53,000,000 in Farm Cash Receipts
- Agriculture is Virginia’s largest industry contributing $52 billion annually to the Commonwealth
- Because the agriculture industry is so large in Virginia it provides nearly 357,000 jobs in the Commonwealth
- Today, one farmer supplies food for 155 people in the U.S. and abroad
- Less than 16 cents of every consumer dollar spent on food actually goes to the farmer
- Approximately 17 percent of Virginia’s primary farm operators are female
- The average farm size in Virginia is 179 acres
- The typical Virginia farmer is 59.5 years old. Thirty-six percent of farmers are 65 years of age or older
- Farms cover 8.2 million acres, which equals 33 percent of Virginia’s total land area of 25.3 million acres