Fri 29 Feb 2008
Fuzzy math
Posted by Jeff under Agriculture, Biotech Mashup
-China produces more cotton than any other country.
-Texas grows the most cotton of any state in the U.S.
-A bale of cotton weights about 500 pounds.
-Each bale is subjected to more than 800,000 pounds of force during wrapping.
-One bale can produce:
1,217 men’s T-shirts
313,600 $100 bills
215 pairs of jeans
3,085 diapers
1,256 pillow cases
-There are about 35,000 cotton farms in the U.S.
-The U.S. produced 23.89 million bales of cotton in the year 2005.
-This is enough cotton to print nearly 7.5 trillion $100 bills.
(Some facts courtesy of the National Cotton Council)
