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western-canadian-farm-trivia-challenge

By karpan-robin-karpan

western-canadian-farm-trivia-challenge book

western-canadian-farm-trivia-challenge

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Which country is the biggest export market for our wheat? (The answer may surprise you.) Do you know how much a cow pie weighs, how many litres of milk a dairy cow produces each day, or how many seeds there are in a bushel of canola? Can you name the prairie community that built a bronze statue to honour a pig that escaped from the abattoir? Answers to these and over 300 other intriguing questions are revealed in a new book, Western Canadian Farm Trivia Challenge , by Robin and Arlene Karpan. The 192-page book is packed with important, as well as completely frivolous, details on many aspects of farming in the west - the crops we grow, the livestock we raise, our markets which span the globe, the glories of the good old days, and the realities of farming today. Do you know how much a farmer gets paid for the barley that goes into one bottle of beer (hint: it ain't much)? What about the amount of methane gas emitted by a 1000-pound cow (hint: lots!)? Western Canada is the world's largest producer and exporter of several crops - do you know which ones? How far would a honey bee have to fly in order to collect enough nectar for a pound of honey?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
192
Publication Date:
2002
Publisher:
Parkland Publishing
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
0968357954
Weight:
272 g
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