An agricultural breakdown of the NBA Finals

Jun 02, 2016

Series features a rematch of last year’s participants

By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com

The NBA takes center stage Thursday night as the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Golden State Warriors who represent the Western Conference in game one of the NBA Finals.

The two teams battled for the Larry O’Brien trophy last year, with Golden State emerging victorious.

Farms.com did an agricultural comparison of Ohio and California last year and the data showed Golden State winning the championship.

Basketball insiders have spent time dissecting whether LeBron James can bring a championship to Cleveland or if Steph Curry can help the Warriors cement their legacy after they won 73 games during the regular season and repeat as champions.

Once again Farms.com will use data from the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service to determine the winner of the NBA championship.

? signals advantage for each team

	Ohio	California
NBA Team
Number of farm operations	74,400	77,500 ?
Average acres per operation	188	329 ?
Total acres operated	14,000,000	25,500,000 ?
Milk production (lbs)	5,493,000,000	40,898,000,000 ?
Top commodity value ($)	Soybeans - $2,097,450,000 ?	Strawberries - $1,855,326,000
Total value of ag products sold ($)	$10,064,085,000	$42,627,472,000 ?
Aquaculture ($)	$3,875,000	$103,016,000 ?
Average farmer age	56.1 ?	60.1

Judging by the data, the Golden State Warriors will repeat as NBA champions.

Be sure to visit the Farms.com breakdown of the Stanley Cup Final.

Video: A chain harrow is a game changer

Utilizing a rotational grazing method on our farmstead with our sheep helps to let the pasture/paddocks rest. We also just invested in a chain harrow to allow us to drag the paddocks our sheep just left to break up and spread their manure around, dethatch thicker grass areas, and to rough up bare dirt areas to all for a better seed to soil contact if we overseed that paddock. This was our first time really using the chain harrow besides initially testing it out. We are very impressed with the work it did and how and area that was majority dirt, could be roughed up before reseeding.

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