Transcript Agriculture and Agribusiness

Agriculture and
Agribusiness
Chapter 1
What is Agribusiness?
► All
operations involved in the manufacture
and distribution of farm supplies
 Production operations on the farms
 Storage, processing, and distribution of the
resulting farm commodities and items
The Big Picture
► Agribusiness
companies provide input
supplies to the farmer. The output from
farmers is taken by agribusinesses and
process, market and distribute the products
Agriculture Industry
The Cheeseburger
Life Before Agriculture
► People
looked for food
 Learned to fish
 Fire
Early Ag Development
► Raise
crops
► Domesticate animals
► People were no longer nomads
Bronze Age
► 3,000
BC
► Started using metal to cultivate larger areas
of land faster
► Nile River used for irrigation
► Wheel discovered
► World population rose from 3 million to
nearly 100 million
Iron Age
► 1,000
BC
► Iron hand tools and plows
► Mondey developed to trade excess crops
The Middle Ages
► 400-1500
AD
► Crop rotation, harness (switch from oxen to
horses), selective breeding
Farming and Agribusiness in America
► Organic
fertilizer
► Rice 1st grown in US
► George Washington created an experimental
farm
► Thomas Jefferson experimented with seeds
and livestock
After the American Revolution
► Surveying
► Cotton
Gin
► Vaccines
► Cast iron plow
► Interchangeable parts developed so people
could fix equipment
Ag and Industrial Revolution
► Many
inventions (steam engine, railroads) and
people left farms to work in cities
► Cars
► Crop rotation
► Seed drill
► Reaper
► Threshing machine
► Steel plow
► Barbed wire
► Gas tractor
st
1
½ of
th
20
Century
► Panama
Canal opened
► Smith Hughes act
► Cooperative Extension Service
► Hybrid Seeds
► Then
the Dust Bowl and Depression
Because of Depression
► Gov
paid farmers for using soil conservation
practices
► Soil conservation service
► FFA
► High crop yields
► Gov paid for more reserve and education
► Antibiotics used for animals
Last ½ of
► AI
► More
production
► Electric fences
► Pesticides
► Futures
► Computers
th
20
Century
Success
►1
farmer feeds 150 people
► US feeds less than 9% of income on food
► exports