Sunday, April 13, 2008

Crop Needs

Most farm's animal numbers grow every year. Because of this increase the farm has to determine how many acres of crops they will need to feed their herd in the upcoming year. They do this with the help of the nutritionist by looking at the ration needs per cow and multiplying that number by the number in the total herd.

In this region farms usually average 16 tons of corn per acre. Once the farmer knows how much corn he will need to feed his herd for the year he can figure out how many acres of land he will need to use for corn.

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