Beef Trivia

• Hamburger meat from 1 steer would equal 720 quarter-pound hamburgers, enough for a family of 4 to enjoy hamburgers each day for nearly 6 months.

• The United States and Brazil are the top beef producing countries in the world.

• More than 100 medicines used by humans come from cattle.

• One cowhide can produce enough leather to make 20 footballs or 18 soccer balls or 18 volleyballs or 12 basketballs.

• Beef is the number one source of zinc in the human diet in the United States.

• Cattle are ruminant animals. They have a stomach with four compartments, which allows them to eat feeds like grass and hay that humans cannot eat.

• Cattle outnumber humans in 9 states: Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.

• The average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements per day.

• Cattle consume less than 2/10ths of 1% of all water used in the United States.

• A cow spends 6 hours eating and 8 hours chewing its cud each day.