1. Here's a hint... Paper comes from trees. And there are tree farmers. Parts of corn and soybeans are used to make the ink and help keep it on the paper.

The answer is: D

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2. Hint. Farmers have to be agronomists, economists, weather forecasters, accountants and mechanics

All answers are correct.

Many farmers even have small computers in their tractors, but they never play games while they are driving.

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3. A farmer grows enough food to feed six times as many people as a farmer in 1940.

The answer is: C

Believe it or not, the average American farmer today can feed 129 people--101 in the U.S. and 28 abroad.

No other farmers anywhere at any time in history have been able to feed so many.

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4. Here's a hint... The Japanese spend almost twice as much as Americans, and people in India spend more than half their money just to eat.

The answer is: A

American farmers do such a good job that our food costs are lower than anywhere else in the world.

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5. Hint. It may be something very close to you right now.

The answer is: B

Cotton is used to make clothes, sheets and many other things we use every day. There's even a little cotton in dollar bills!

It's the world's biggest farm product that you can't eat.

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6. Hint... It would be a lot of food for you to eat in a day... but remember, a cow weighs over 1,000 pounds.

The answer is: C

It takes that much food, plus enough water to fill a bathtub, to produce the five or six gallons of milk a cow gives each day.

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7. Hint... this should be about knee-high by the Fourth of July.

The answer is: B

$1.2 billion worth of corn was sold by Ohio farmers in 1997.

Corn is Ohio's biggest crop. The record production was 511 million bushels in 1985.

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8. Hint... this product can also be made from things like sugar cane or whey. In the US this is usually made from corn.

The answer is: C

Many gas stations sell a kind of gas which is made of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline. It causes less air pollution and keeps us from having to buy as much oil from other countries.

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9. The answer is: D

80% of what cattle eat are things you would never put on your dinner plate. They eat cornstalks, hay, pea vines and grass. Those would NOT taste very good to us.

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