Fun Facts

• There are 930 acres of commercial vegetables planted each year in Alaska.
   
• The AlaskaGrown program was started in 1986.
   
• The farm marketing industry in Alaska is a $52 million business.
   
• More than 230,000 heads of lettuce were produced last year on 61 acres of Alaskan soil.
   
• Alaska hosts 34,000 acres of farmland divided into five different regions.
   
• In 1935, President Roosevelt sanctioned a relocation program bringing 202 farming families to the Matanuska Valley.
   
• Of the 65,000 acres of potatoes planted in the United States, 950 acres are in Alaska.
   
• The ratio of pigs/hogs to people in Alaska is 1:640.
   
• The AlaskaGrown logo was a creation of the Alaska Division of Agriculture and the Alaska Farmers and Stockgrowers Association.
   
• Alaska's milk production totaled 1,500,000 pounds, with an average production per cow at 1,150 pounds