2006 Ag Expo Fact Sheet

Michigan's Agricultural Equipment Show
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
East Lansing, MI
JULY 18-JULY 20, 2006

• Ag Expo is Michigan's largest farm show
• A 35-acre outdoor exhibit area on the Michigan State University campus
• Central location more than 90% of Michigan's field crop income, livestock income and net farm income is produced within a two-hour drive
• Hundreds of commercial agricultural exhibits
• The latest in farm equipment, products, supplies and services
• Daily field demonstrations
• Educational exhibits
• Show hours:
  • Tuesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Wednesday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Thursday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Free admission and parking
• Member, North American Farm Show Council

• 52,000 farms on 10.4 million acres of crop land
• Cash receipts: Total livestock, $1.34 billion; dairy, $729 million; cattle and calves, $257 million; hogs, $200 million; field crops, $996 million; corn, $341 million; soybeans, $350 million; dry beans, $67 million; wheat, $76 million; vegetables, $362 million; fruit, $236 million
• Field crop acreage: corn, 2.2 million acres; soybeans, 2.1 million acres; hay, 1.3 million acres; wheat and small grains, 645,000 acres; dry beans, 285,000 acres; sugar beets, 189,000 acres; potatoes, 52,000 acres
• Livestock numbers: milk cows, 300,000; all cattle and calves, 980,000; hogs and pigs, 948,000; sheep and lambs, 71,000; chickens, 7.6 million
• Rankings: #2 nationally in all dry bean production; #4 in sugar beet production; #8 in milk production; #10 in potato production; #11 in corn for grain production; #10 in soybean production; #13 in hogs; #14 in eggs; #15 in winter wheat production; #17 in hay production

MICHIGAN AGRICULTURE IS
GOOD BUSINESS