Importance of Agriculture

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Importance of Agriculture
By Brad Buckner Chapter 1 2/11/05
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Objectives

• Explain the meaning of agriculture
• Describe why agriculture is important.
• Discuss how agriculture has changed.
• Identify the role of systems in agriculture.

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What is agriculture?

• The production and marketing of food and fiber
  products.
• Crops
• Animals

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Two areas of Agriculture

• Production Agriculture Work done on the farm
• Agribusiness work done off the farm.

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Production Agriculture

• Also known as farming or ranching.
• Crops are plants that are grown for its products.
• Live stock, Cattle poultry, sheep.
• Less than 1 are involved in production
  agriculture.

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Agribusiness

• 25 of all Jobs are related to agriculture.
• Getting products from the farm to the consumer.
• This area also consist of professionals such as
  vets and chemist.

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Other areas Of Agriculture

• Horticulture
• Forestry
• Natural Resources

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Horticulture

• The production of plants for their beauty and
  usefulness.
• Includes ornamentals and food crops.
• Lettuce ,apples , nuts

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Forestry

• The science and art of growing trees and making
  them into products.
• Tree farms is a farm that specializes in growing
  trees.

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Natural resources

• Water
• Minerals
• Wildlife
• Oil
• Air
• soil

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Why is agriculture important?

• We must have food, clothing , and housing.

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Food

• The solid and liquid material we eat each day.
• How much food do you eat?

• Milk 572 lbs.
• Vegetables 244 lbs.
• Cereal 189 lbs.
• Red meat 163lbs.
• Potatoes 136 lbs.
• Fruit 124 lbs.
• Poultry 61 lbs.
• Fish 15 lbs

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Clothing

• The covering we wear on our bodies.
• Fiber is a tiny piece of solid material that is
  like a thread.
• Fiber comes from animals and plants.

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Housing

• Wood is the product of trees.
• Lumber, plywood, furniture

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How has Agriculture Changed?

• Early settlers lived by hunting and fishing.
• They grew few crops and raised a small number of
  animals.
• Native Americans played an important part in the
  success of the early settlers.
• Europe desired products such as cotton, flax,
  tea, and rice.

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Assignment

• Cotton gin
• John Deere
• Jethro Tull
• Cyrus McCormick
• Steam Engine
• Internal Combustion Engine
• Gegor Mendel
• Fertilizer
• Squanto
• Henry Ford
• Crop farming