Comparing the states each team represents
By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators are the final teams remaining in the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs.
As of Tuesday, the Penguins have jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the best of seven series.
While most hockey analysts use goaltending, power play statistics and other personnel matchups to determine the winner, here at Farms.com we use the agricultural statistics from each of the represented states: Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
The information used is from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s agricultural overview of each state.
** Signals advantage for each team.
| | Pennsylvania | Tennesse |
| NHL Team |  |  |
| Number of farms | 58, 200 | 66,600** |
| Acres operated | 7,630,000 | 10,800,000** |
| Top crop ($) | Hay & Haylage - $837,061,000** | Soybeans - $715,163,000 |
| Average age of principal operator | 56.1** | 59.2 |
| Tobacco production ($) | 40,379,000 | $108,224,000** |
| Beef cow inventory as of Jan 1, 2017 | 185,000 | 909,000** |
| Milk production ($) | $1,861,040,000** | $119,712,000 |
| Total value of ag products sold | $7,400,781,000** | $3,611,037,000 |
Based on our analysis, the Stanley Cup final should be almost too close to call!