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Determining The History Of Agriculture

Determining The History Of Agriculture. Student Learning Objectives. Define agriculture & the agricultural industry Identify important historical developments in agriculture Explain major technological developments in agriculture. Agriculture industry Agriculture Agribusiness Aquaculture

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Determining The History Of Agriculture

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  1. Determining The History Of Agriculture

  2. Student Learning Objectives • Define agriculture & the agricultural industry • Identify important historical developments in agriculture • Explain major technological developments in agriculture

  3. Agriculture industry Agriculture Agribusiness Aquaculture Biotechnology Domestication Farming Forestry Inventions Natural Resources Ornamental Horticulture Suburban Farming Technology Terms

  4. Objective One Define Agriculture and The Agriculture Industry

  5. What is Agriculture? The science of growing crops and raising animals to meet the needs of humans

  6. What is the Ag Industry? • All activities involved with providing people with food, clothing, and shelter • Includes: • Farm operations • Nonfarm operations • Largest industry in America

  7. Nonfarm Operations? • Referred to as Agribusiness • Agribusiness • Nonfarm work • Two basic areas • Supplies & Services • Marketing & Processing

  8. What are Farming Operations? • Uses land and other resources to grow crops and raise animals • Types: • conventional farming • suburban farming • aquaculture • forestry

  9. Conventional Farming • Large land acreage • Grow typical grains • Corn, soybeans, wheat, and other similar crops • Produce larger numbers of animals • Swine, beef and dairy cattle, and sheep

  10. Suburban Farming • Smaller areas of land • Residential or business locations • Typical products • Vegetable crops and small animals

  11. Aquaculture • “Farming the Water” • Areas: • Raising fish • Tilapia, Bass • Aquatic animals • Shrimp,Crawfish • Aquatic plants • Water cress, water chestnuts

  12. Forestry • Production and use of trees

  13. Other Agriculture Sectors • Ornamental Horticulture • Produce flowers and plants for their beauty • Natural Resources • Working with things found in nature • Soil, water, air

  14. Objective Two Identify Important Historical Developments in Agriculture

  15. Two Important Groups of People That Affected Early Agriculture • Native Americans • Colonists

  16. Native Americans • Early agriculture was: • Hunting and gathering • Indian agriculture: • 7000 B.C. simple farming • 1000 A.D. corn in large plots

  17. Colonists • Learned from Native Americans • Credited with early domestication of animals • The taming, confinement, and breeding of animals for human use

  18. Objective Three Explain major technological developments in agriculture

  19. Technology • Technology - The use of inventions in working & living • Inventions - Any new device or product - A new way of doing work

  20. Technology's Advances • Technology has drastically changed agriculture • Mid 1700s: 90% of people were farmers • Today: 2% of population is involved in production agriculture

  21. History of American Agriculture Farm Machinery and Technology

  22. Early Technological Advances • 1607: Indians show colonists how to grow crops • Corn, pumpkins, squash and beans • 1700s: • Charles Townsend develops the first crop rotations systems • Jethro Tull develops a planting machine

  23. Early Technological Advances • 1793: • Cotton gin is developed by Eli Whitney • 1834: • Cyrus McCormick invents the reaper • 1837: • John Deere designs a one-piece wrought iron plow in Detour, IL

  24. Early Technological Advances • 1800s: • Gregor Mendel discovers the basic principles of heredity • 1850: • Joseph Glidden develops barbed wire • 1862: • Morrill Act creates land-grant universities • USDA is established

  25. Early Technological Advances • 1869: • Transcontinental railroad is completed • 1901: • First successful gasoline engine tractor is built

  26. 20th Century Technological Advances • Improved varieties of corn • More resistant to pests & diseases • Development of new chemicals • Control insects, diseases, & weeds • Genetic engineering • Improvement of crops & livestock

  27. 20th Century Technological Advances • Computers • Record keeping • Biotechnology • Science to change organisms or their environments • Process to get products from organisms

  28. Review • What is Agriculture? • What is the Agriculture Industry? • What is an example of non-farm operations? • What are the 4 types of farming operations? Provide an example of each. • Who are the 2 groups of people that affected early agriculture? What did they do? • How has technology changed over time in agriculture?

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