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Where’s Iowa?

Where’s Iowa?. Agriculture in the Classroom Unit 4 It’s All in the Jargon. What does the word Jargon mean? ( confused language or language we don’t understand.) What is a farmer? ( owner or manager of a farm-works with the land or livestock)

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Where’s Iowa?

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  1. Where’s Iowa? Agriculture in the Classroom Unit 4 It’s All in the Jargon

  2. What does the word Jargon mean? (confused language or language we don’t understand.) What is a farmer? (owner or manager of a farm-works with the land or livestock) in 2009 the average age of the Iowa farmer was 56.1 years old.

  3. In 2007 there were 92,856 farms in Iowa. 48,637 classified themselves as farmers. These people made their living totally from the farm. 44, 219 classified themselves as other occupations. These people lived on a farm, but made their living doing something “off” the farm.

  4. 19% of the jobs in Iowa are in agriculture. Of these 92,856 farmers- 84, 404 were male 8, 452 were female.

  5. In 2009 each of these farmers were credited with feeding 143. Just 69 years earlier in 1940 each farmer fed 19 people. Why did this change so? (bigger and better farm equipment, better seed, better weed control and fertilizers, and healthier people.)

  6. Farm Jargon It’s how a farmer talks and everyone that is connected with agriculture needs to learn what it all means. Remember how we talked about how land was measured. (animate) In acres, townships, and sections. Well, crops and animals are measured in a different way. (Animate) They are referred to as commodities. Remember what a commodity is…

  7. Now this is the fun part… grains are measured in different ways than animals… but basically it all comes down to weights.

  8. Grains such as corn, soybeans, barley, wheat and oats are measured in bushels. A bushel is equal to 8 gallons or 1.244 cubic feet. A bushel basket is something that holds what is equal to those measurements or standard weight. So when a farmer comes in with a wagon or semi truck to the elevator, to sell their grain, it’s weighed to figure out how many bushels are in it.

  9. The Farmer is paid by the bushel.

  10. Iowa ranked number 1 in corn and soybean production in the nation. We produce 165 bushel of corn per acre, or 2.33 billion bushels in 2011. Iowa produced 51 bushels of soybeans per acre or 468 million bushels in 2011. This means that Iowa lead the nation in biofuels…we made 26% of US ethanol and 12% biodiesel

  11. Two other commodities that we ranked number one in production in the nation are: Eggs. We produced 14.6 billion eggs That’s enough to feed all the people in the world an egg for two days. Hogs with 37.4 million head. Livestock is measured in heads and each head has a weight.

  12. Market weight hogs weigh between 280-320 pounds each. Market weight cattle weigh between 1200-1400 pounds each.

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