2025 Super Bowl of agriculture

Feb 05, 2025
By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content, Farms.com

Who wins in the battle between Pennsylvania and Missouri?

Sunday, Feb. 9 is the biggest day in the football calendar as Super Bowl LIX (59) between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles emanates from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La.

The game is chalked full of storylines.

The Chiefs are looking to make history Sunday night by becoming the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls. It would also be their fourth Super Bowl win in the last six years.

And the last time the Eagles played in a Super Bowl, it was in a losing effort to the Chiefs in 2022.

As the game draws nearer, analysts and armchair quarterbacks alike will weigh in on which factors and storylines within the game.

Farms.com, however, will use 2023 data from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service to determine the winner. This is because the full 2024 dataset is unavailable.

** Indicates which team has the advantage.

Stat	Missouri	Pennsylvania
Team
Number of operations	87,600**	49,000
Value of top commodity	Soybeans - $3.36 billion**	Hay - $754 million
Milk production (Lbs/head)	13,984	21,157**
Acres per operation	308**	145
Oat yield	68 bushels per acre**	61 bushels per acre
Hog inventory (as of Dec. 1, 2023)	3.1 million**	1.46 million

Based on the figures from the USDA, the Kansas City Chiefs will win the Super Bowl.

While here, revisit some of great Super Bowl ads featuring agriculture.

And be sure to watch the iconic So God Made a Farmer commercial below.

Video: Canada's Agriculture Day 2025

Let's celebrate Canadian agriculture.

Well, number one, you don't eat without farmers. Farmers put food on the table. And what could be more important than that?

Well, I think it's important that Canadians understand exactly what takes place, what happens to produce this food, no matter what sector you're talking about.

An awful lot of work goes into that. It's important to understand that meat does not come out of a showcase, and milk does not come out of a bottle. It's produced by farmers and hard work.

Canada has the best farmers in the world. And agriculture is vital to Canada.

In 2024, our agriculture and agri-food sector represented $150 billion of Canada's GDP, nearly $100 billion of our exports, and one in nine jobs.

From grains to fruits to dairy and beef, we are truly blessed with an incredible bounty. Having spent my whole life in agriculture, I see so much potential for the sector.

This time last year, I was proud to open our first-ever agriculture and trade office in the Indo-Pacific, the world’s fastest-growing economy, to cement our presence in the region and grow our exports even more. We've also been making historic investments to help our farmers to boost their yields, protect the planet, and earn a fair living.

The world wants more top-quality, sustainable food, and I know our Canadian farmers can deliver. And it's so important that you do that with pride. We need you.

Quite simply, you eat the most top quality food in the world. You do that because of the quality of farmers and ranchers you have in this country.

Just say thank you to a farmer or a rancher. They work very hard, yes, for a living, but also with a sense of pride in what they produce.

That's what Canada's Agriculture Day is all about.