From my propane supplier's newsletter:

One pound of wool can make 10 miles of yarn. There are 150 yards (450 feet) of wool yarn in a baseball.

Today's farmer feeds 155 people worldwide; in 1960, that number was 25.8.

Soybeans are an important ingredient for the production of crayons: one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons.

Elevators in the Statue of Liberty use a soybean-based hydraulic fluid.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Turkeys originated in North and Central America, and evidence indicates they have been around for more than 10 million years. Mature turkeys have more than 3,500 feathers.

The oldest known plant used for livestock feed is alfalfa. Records of its use as feed date to as early as 1000 B.B. Alfalfa is one of the most nutritious crops to feed to animals. (For those of you who don't know, alfalfa is dried to make hay, and can also be chopped green with corn and fed as silage.)

Cows are herbivores so they only have teeth on the bottom, and like snowflakes, no two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.