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peteretep
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1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland
> Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km2 which is slightly larger than Israel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station
Thev00d00
on Nov 25, 2020
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Yet only capable of carrying up to 16,500 head of cattle during a good season
rufus_foreman
on Nov 28, 2020
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16,500 cattle, so that's 450 pounds ground meat per head, a hamburger is a 10:1, so that's 16,500 * 450 * 10 = 74,250,000, that's only 75 million hamburgers.
refurb
on Nov 25, 2020
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That's roughly 2 cattle per square mile or 1 head of cattle for every 1.5 sq km.
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