The Importance of Agriculture -Agriscience in Our Lives-

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The Importance of Agriculture-Agriscience in Our
Lives-

• Holton Agricultural Education Department
• Agriculture Exploration Class

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What was it like?
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What was it like?

• Every second was spent worrying about your next
  meal.

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Hunters and Gatherers

• If you wanted to eat you either had to go out and
  kill it or go out and gather it.

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Hunters and Gatherers

• Nature provided caves for shelter and wood for
  fire.

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Hunters and Gatherers

• Wild animals provided meat for food and clothing.

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What is Agriscience?
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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture -

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Production involves the actual producing of the
  food and fiber, this area includes all of the
  inputs necessary for production and all of the
  production labor.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Production involves the actual producing of the
  food and fiber, this are includes all of the
  inputs necessary for production and all of the
  production labor.
• Grain, Livestock, and Fruit Farming

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Production involves the actual producing of the
  food and fiber, this are includes all of the
  inputs necessary for production and all of the
  production labor.
• Grain, Livestock, and Fruit Farming
• Chemicals, fertilizers, supporting agribusiness

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Processing involves the changing of a raw natural
  product and converting it into a useable,
  consumable product.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Processing involves the changing of a raw natural
  product and converting it into a useable,
  consumable product.
• Grain and Feed Milling, Meat Processing, Saw
  Mills, etc.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Marketing involves packaging, distribution, and
  sales of finished agriculture products to
  retailers and to the consumers.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriculture - The production, processing, and
  marketing of food, fiber, and renewable natural
  resources.
• Marketing involves packaging, distribution, and
  sales of finished agriculture products to
  retailers and to the consumers.
• Shipping, advertising, restaurants, grocery
  stores, lumber yards, etc.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriscience Defined -

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriscience Defined - The application of
  scientific principles and new technologies
  relating to agriculture.

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What is Agriscience?

• Agriscience Defined - The application of
  scientific principles and new technologies
  relating to agriculture.
• Agriscience makes our agriculture production
  system more productive and efficient.

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Agriscience - Science put into action.
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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• The Basic Sciences

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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• The Basic Sciences
• Biology
• Earth Science
• Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Physics

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Agriscience - Science put into action.
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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• The Applied Sciences

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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• Applied Sciences
• Horticulture
• Animal Science
• Agronomy
• Agriculture Mechanization
• Aquaculture
• Integrated Pest Management
• Irrigation

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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• Currently people in the united states only spend
  14 cents of every dollar they earn on food.

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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• Currently people in the united states only spend
  14 cents of every dollar they earn on food.
• Food in the United State is cheaper than any
  other place in the world.

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Agriscience - Science put into action.

• Currently people in the united states only spend
  14 cents of every dollar they earn on food.
• Food in the United State is cheaper than any
  other place in the world.
• Advances in agriscience are the reason!!!

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Recent Agriculture Headlines
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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning Beef and Apple Juice
  

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt Corn

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial - I will never
  eat another burger

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial - I will never
  eat another burger

• Pesticides in the drinking water

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial - I will never
  eat another burger

• Pesticides in the drinking water
• Pesticide residues found on fruit

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial - I will never
  eat another burger

• Pesticides in the drinking water
• Pesticide residues found on fruit
• BSE - Bovine Spongiform Ecephalathy -(Mad Cow
  Disease)

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial - I will never
  eat another burger

• Pesticides in the drinking water
• Pesticide residues found on fruit
• BSE - Bovine Spongiform Ecephalathy -(Mad Cow
  Disease)
• Livestock waste runoff in water

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Recent Agriculture Headlines

• BST - Bovine Somatotropin
• E. Coli Food Poisoning
• Growth Hormones
• Biotechnology or genetic engineering -Bt
  Corn -Roundup Ready Beans
• Oprah Winfrey Trial - I will never
  eat another burger

• Pesticides in the drinking water
• Pesticide residues found on fruit
• BSE - Bovine Spongiform Ecephalathy -(Mad Cow
  Disease)
• Livestock waste runoff in water
• Methane is depleting the ozone and causing global
  warming

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The Media Can Be Pretty Scary

• You should know enough to make and informed
  decision and find out the rest of the information.

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The Media Can Be Pretty Scary

• You should know enough to make and informed
  decision and find out the rest of the
  information.
• Knowledge is your protection.

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The Media Can Be Pretty Scary

• You should know enough to make and informed
  decision and find out the rest of the
  information.
• Knowledge is your protection.
• Intelligent people listen to all of the
  information and then ask the right questions.

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The Media Can Be Pretty Scary

• You should know enough to make and informed
  decision and find out the rest of the
  information.
• Knowledge is your protection.
• Intelligent people listen to all of the
  information and then ask the right questions.

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What do you believe?

• If you were to believe all of the negative
  publicity about the agriculture industry then you
  wont be left with many options when it comes
  time for dinner.

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What do you believe?

• If you were to believe all of the negative
  publicity about the agriculture industry then you
  wont be left with many options when it comes
  time for dinner.
• Meat, grains, juices, fruit, vegetables, water,
  milk, pasta, etc have all been challenged as not
  safe by the recent media attention on agriculture.

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What do you believe?

• If you were to believe all of the negative
  publicity about the agriculture industry then you
  wont be left with many options when it comes
  time for dinner.
• Meat, grains, juices, fruit, vegetables, water,
  milk, pasta, etc have all been challenged as not
  safe by the recent media attention on
  agriculture.
• If all of these foods are unsafe then what is
  left?

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Are you hungry?
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Are you hungry?

• You will eat for the rest of your life.

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Are you hungry?

• You will eat for the rest of your life.

The more you know about agriculture the better
off you will be!!!