Saturday Data: Urban Farm in a Box

     Agriculture is a huge business in Alabama, including the "urban farm" at the Alabama Riverfront in Downtown Montgomery.

     But now a company has developed a way to have farm fresh produce even in the most densely-populated city neighborhoods. 
     Shipping containers converted into self-contained mini-farms. The crops inside grow 365 days a year, in drought, in a freeze, in a flood.

Read the story HERE. 

Chickens are king in Alabama, more than a billion raised each year:

Cattle, Cows, Beef - Inventory ( First of Jan. 2015 )	652,000
Cattle, Cows, Milk - Inventory ( First of Jan. 2015 )	8,000
Cattle, Incl Calves - Inventory ( First of Jan. 2015 )	1,200,000
Goats, Meat & Other - Inventory ( First of Jan. 2015 )	47,000
Goats, Milk - Inventory ( First of Jan. 2015 )	3,800
Hogs - Inventory ( First of Dec. 2014 )	110,000
Chickens, Broilers - Production, Measured in Head	1,061,500,000

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