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What is agribusiness

What is agribusiness. All businesses involved in food and fiber production, including farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distributrion , processing, marketing, and retail sales. Big picture of agribusiness. Inputs-supplies to the farmer

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What is agribusiness

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  1. What is agribusiness All businesses involved in food and fiber production, including farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distributrion, processing, marketing, and retail sales

  2. Big picture of agribusiness • Inputs-supplies to the farmer • Farmer-production agriculturist • Outputs-businesses that process, market, and distribute the farm products

  3. Before agriculture • Humans were scavengers • Hunt • Fish • Wild-growing plants

  4. Early agriculture • Collect seed • domesticate animals • Slow development • Began settling down, communities developed

  5. Bronze age • 3000BC • Agriculture spread throughout the world • Bronze tools and plows • Egyptians develop irrigation • Wheel developed

  6. Iron Age • 1000BC • Trade developed among people • Iron hand tools and plows • Money Fallow land

  7. Middle Ages • 400-1500 • Slow development(fall of Roman Empire) • Crop rotation • Selective breeding • Columbus

  8. American colonies • Organic fertilizer-dead fish • Rice • George Washington and Thomas Jefferson-experimentation

  9. After American Revolution • Surveying of land • Cotton gin 1793 • Vaccines • Cast-iron plow Jethro Wood 1819 • Interchangeable parts

  10. Agriculture and Industrial Revolution • Began in 1840’s and 1850’s • Steam engine • Railroads • Sewing machine • Powered loom • Movement of population from farms to cities • Shift from animal power to mechanical power

  11. Agriculture and Industrial Revolution • Automobile • Crop rotation promoted • Advances in livestock breeding • Seed drill-JethroTull • Reaper-Cyrus McCormick • Stationary threshing machine • John Deere plow(steel) • Barbed wire • Gasoline powed tractor-1892 • Seed and plant genetics-Gregor Mendel

  12. First Half of 20th century • Bureau of Forestry • Vaccine for hog cholera • Panama Canal • Smith-Hughes act • Cooperative Extension Service • Federal Land Banks-credit for farmers • Hybrid plant seed • New products(peanut butter, etc.) • 400 uses for peanut • 118 uses for sweet potato

  13. Agriculture and Great Depression • Hit farmers long before everyone else • Midwestern states drought-dust bowl • Government pays farmers to conserve soil • Soil Conservation Service-1935 • Better management practices encouraged • Government pays for and encourages more reseearch and education

  14. Latter part of 20th century • Artificial insemination • Increased productivity • Reduced tillage • New and better fertilizers and pesticides • Computers • Biotechnology(gene splicing, cloning)

  15. Farm Equipment Development • Manpower • Animals(oxen, horses) • Steam Engine-first stationary, later mobile • Internal combustion engine • Early fuels-gun powder, turpentine, coal dust, kerosene

  16. Farm Equipment Development • Farm Tractors-1890’s • First used word tractor in 1906 • Early tractors expensive, big, bulky, hard to drive • Pto-1918 • Rubber tires-1932 • Mid 1930’s to now-same basic model for tractors

  17. Success of Agribusiness • Each farm worker supplies enough food and fiber for more than 150 people • Americans spend less on food than any other country • U. S. is a major exporter of agriculture products • American agriculture considered a marvel of the world

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