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Updated: November 5, 2020

Treasure Hunt

You’ve probably been in a treasure hunt. Well, this is like a treasure hunt, but you are searching for information. Some of these statements are true and some are false. Your job is to find the correct answers to the ones that are false. All of the answers can be found in the “Agriculture & Business” part of this web site.Good luck!

1. In Montana there are 3 cows for every human. 
2. Three out of every five bushels of Montana wheat goes to Japan.
3. Class I milk consists of hard cheese, butter, and cream cheese.
4. Agriculture and the Food and Fiber System proved one out of every 6 jobs in the U.S.
5. Birds sometimes eat tiny rocks which stay in their gizzard to help grind feed.
6. Bran and germ are the least nutritious part of grain.
7. Cows will eat 2% of their body weight each day.
8. The United States ranks second in the world for the export of agriculture products.
9. The top four cereal grains are wheat, oats, corn, and barley.
10. Pigs have 1 stomach, like humans.
11. Farms and ranches makeup about one half of the state’s total land area.
12. Christmas trees have been grown in Montana for more than 80 years.
13. Ruminants like cows and sheep have 3 stomachs.
14 Rangeland is used only as a place for domestic animals to graze.
15 An acre of land is about the size of a football field.


Answers

Item Answer Correct Answer Where to Find It
1
T
  Livestock-Montana's Cattle Industry
2
F
1 out of 3 bushels Learn More-Agriculture Fun Facts
3
F
buttermilk, chocolate milk, homogenized milk Livestock-Montana Dairy Industry
4
T
  Learn More-Agriculture Fun Facts
5
T
  Livestock-Montana's Poultry Industry
6
F
most nutritious part Crops-Barley & Oats
7
T
  Crops-Montana's Hay Industry
8
F
ranks first in the world Learn More-Agriculture Fun Facts
9
F
wheat, RICE, corn, and barley Crops-Barley & Oats
10
T
  Livestock-Montana's Swine Industry
11
F
2/3 of the state's land area The Land
12
T
  Crops-Christmas Trees
13
F
four stomachs Livestock-Cattle-Sheep
14
F
serves many other purposes The Land-Rangeland
15
T
  Learn More-Agriculture Fun Facts


Updated: November 5, 2020

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