The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

Agriculture represents 17 % of GDP and it's the largest percentage in a Central American country.

Barack Obama announced Vilsack's selection to be the United States Secretary of Agriculture under his administration on December 17, 2008.

On December 17, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama announced his choice of Vilsack as the nominee to be the 30th Secretary of Agriculture.

According to the 2002 Census of Agriculture, spinach was grown on 1, 109 U. S. farms — down 17 % from 1997, but about the same number as in 1987.

For instance, in 2006, the Department of Agriculture estimated that the average farm household income was $ 77, 654 or about 17 % higher than the average U. S. household income.

By way of comparison, in one of the largest food producing countries in the world, the United States, approximately one out of six people are " food insecure ", including 17 million children, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Agriculture employs about 30 % of the population of San Andrés, while it employs 17. 4 % of the population of San Pedro.

US Department of Agriculture estimates that for a child born in 2007, a US family will spend an average of $ 11, 000 to $ 23, 000 per year for the first 17 years of child's life.

Jeremiah McLain Rusk ( June 17, 1830November 21, 1893 ) was the 15th Governor of the U. S. state of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889 and the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1889 to 1893.

Agriculture accounts for an elevated 17 % of output and includes crops such as soy, sorghum and maize.

Los Baños was further declared as an " Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences Community " on 17 March 1982 by virtue of Executive Order No. 784 ( Section 23 ).

The remainder were employed in public health clinics, nursing homes, schools, prisons, home health care agencies, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Fifteen percent of responding PAs work in counties classified as non-metropolitan by Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture ; approximately 17 % of the US population resides in these counties.

" On February 17, 1857, the Special Committee submitted a plan of reorganization for the committees that did not include the Agriculture Committee.

* Agriculture Canada Research Farms – 17 km² site for research in animal disease prevention and treatment.

In Joe Clark's cabinet he was the Minister of Agriculture ( June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980 ) and he was also Minister of Agriculture ( September 17, 1984 – September 14, 1988 ) in Brian Mulroney's cabinet.

Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman submitted the legislation on April 17, 1964.

Arthur Mastick Hyde ( July 12, 1877 – October 17, 1947 ) was an American Republican politician who served as the 35th Governor of Missouri and U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

To further protect the name, an association of traditional Prosecco growers is advocating a protected designation of origin status for Northern Italian Prosecco under European law. Prosecco is, according to an order of the Italian Minister of Agriculture dated 17 July 2009 since 1 January 2010 not the name of a grape variety any more ( now to be called Glera ), but exclusively a geographical indication.

He was easily re-elected in the 1999 provincial election, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on June 17, 1999.

When the Vermilion School of Agriculture officially opened on November 17, 1913 it became the first of the provincial agricultural colleges to open its door.

He attended his first meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers in Brussels on 17 March.

By-election: On Mr. Pope's appointment as Minister of Agriculture, 17 October 1878

The Farm Credit Administration, an independent agency located within the Department of Agriculture, supervises and coordinates a cooperative credit system for agriculture.

Available, on request, from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C., are: Cooperative Farm Credit Can Assist In Rural Development ( Circular No. 44 ), and The Cooperative Farm Credit System ( Circular No. 36-A ).

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Construction and maintenance of this system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Agriculture.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

The farmers may be aroused if Congress cuts into the Agriculture Department's budget.

Now 38, Mr. Simpkins was graduated from the University of Maryland's College of Agriculture in 1947.

Georgia's Department of Agriculture is intensifying its fire ant eradication program in an effort to stay ahead of the fast-spreading pest.

Agriculture Department economists estimate the Government this year will hand farmers $1.4 billion in special subsidies and incentive payments, well above the record $1.1 billion of 1958 and about double the $639 million of 1960.

Agriculture also called farming or husbandry is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain life.

Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization.

Agriculture generally speaking refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant and termite.

" Agriculture " in Selin, Helaine ( ed.

* U. S. House Committee on Agriculture – Glossary of agricultural terms, programs and laws

* After the Development of Agriculture, A. D. A., system of counting years, like A. D. and A. M.

Agriculture may create a negative impact on their population due to use of poisons by farmers.

Demographics of Angola, Data of Food and Agriculture Organization | FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.