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Title: Introduction to Agriculture


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Introduction to Agriculture
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Do Now.
  • 1. Write down all of the products that you can
    think of that originated from plants animals.
  • 2. List everything that you ate for supper last
    night where did each of the main ingredients
    come from.

3
Human Food Needs
  • Energy
  • Growth and Repair
  • Good Health
  • Body Processes

4
Sources of Food
  • Fruits
  • Apples
  • Flowers
  • Cauliflower
  • Stems
  • Celery
  • Multiple Parts
  • Turnip (leaves and roots)
  • Plants
  • 250,000 plants on earth
  • 600 are used for food
  • Leaves
  • Lettuce
  • Seeds
  • Beans
  • Roots
  • Potatoes

5
Animal Sources
  • Terrestrial
  • Animals that live on land
  • Aquatic
  • Animals that live in water
  • Meat
  • Eggs
  • Milk

6
Fiber (Clothing)
  • Animal Fibers
  • Wool
  • Fur
  • Silk
  • Plant Fibers
  • Cotton
  • Flax
  • Hemp
  • Jute
  • Sisal
  • Synthetics
  • Those made by man

7
Wood Products
  • Lumber
  • Plywood
  • Veneer
  • Composition Board
  • Paper

8
Definition of Agriculture
  • Agriculture
  • The science of growing crops and raising
    livestock.

9
More Definitions
  • Agriscience the application of scientific
    principles new technologies to agriculture.
  • Agribusiness the production, processing,
    distribution marketing of agricultural products
    services.

10
Innovations in Agriculture
  • Charles Townshed
  • 1st crop rotation system
  • Jethro Tull
  • Developed seed planting machine in early 1700s.
  • Eli Whitney
  • Cotton gin
  • Cyrus McCormick
  • Patented a harvesting machine (reaper) in 1834

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  • John Deere
  • 1837 1st steel moldboard plow
  • Gregor Mendel
  • Austrian botanist
  • Discovered basic principles of heredity
  • Silver Bullet Era
  • 1940s-1950s
  • New pesticides on market
  • Dramatically increases yields.
  • Biotechnology Era
  • 1984 entered stock market
  • 1995 RoundUp Ready Soybeans

12
New York Agriculture Products
  • List as many as you can think of
  • What raw materials do they require where are
    they produced?
  • Milk-dairy cows
  • Hamburger-beef cows
  • Bread-wheat, grains
  • Wine-grapes
  • Corn Products-corn

13
Areas of Agriculture
  • Supplies and Services
  • Machinery and equipment
  • Seed
  • Chemicals
  • Feed and animal medicines
  • Production Agriculture
  • Marketing and Processing

14
What are some types of businesses related to
agriculture?
  • Grocery Stores
  • Florists
  • Hardware Stores
  • Machinery Dealers
  • Lumber Yards
  • Trucking Businesses
  • Environmental Agencies
  • Radio TV Companies

15
What types of products do these businesses handle?
  • Grocery Stores meats, vegetables, dairy products
  • Florists flowers potted plants
  • Hardware Stores gardening equipment, tools
    nails
  • Machinery Dealers tractors, combines plows
  • Lumber Yards wood Mulch

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  • Trucking Business meats, veggies, lumber milk.

17
What are the four major divisions of Agriculture?
  • Production producing food fiber
  • Processing changing food fiber into consumer
    products
  • Distribution moving products to the market
  • Marketing selling products

18
How are agriculture science related?
  • Agriculture is the application of the earth,
    physical life sciences.
  • Earth Science study of soils sunlight
  • Physical Science study of simple machines,
    energy matter
  • Life Science study of plants, animals the
    environment

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Homework for Friday Nov. 21st
  • Fill out the business worksheet in your packet
  • Due MONDAY NOV 24th!!!!!
  • You can use a phonebook to help you

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