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Types of Agriculture
Types of Agriculture
Ag Science I
Mr. Dieckhoff
Hieroglyphics Moment
On a sheet of printer paper, draw
pictures (similar to what ancient
Egyptians used) on what Agriculture
means to you
So….What is Agriculture?
Agriculture –
Watch Video!
What is the foundation of
Agriculture?
Production Agriculture
But….Ag Producers Get the
Smallest Piece of the Pie
Value Added
Further processing to gain more value to
consumer
Value-Added Food Activity
With the people at your table, develop a
value-added food product to be
marketed across the US in
supermarkets.
Common Types of Agriculture
Producers in Missouri
Beef Cattle Poultry
Swine Dairy Cattle
Corn Goats
Soybeans Sheep
Wheat Rice
Cotton
Beef Cattle - video
Primarily grown for meat
Cow-calf producer – raises
cows on grass, sells calves at
8 months old
Stocker Producer – feeds
calves on grass for 4 months
Feedlot Finisher – feeds calves
corn to fatten out for 4-8
months
MO great pasture for cow-calf
(#2)
Judging Activity
Beef Judging
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Swine
Most hogs raised in
confinement – indoor,
climate controlled, fresh
feed & water
Hybrid Vigor – results of
breeding that allows
offspring to be better
than parents with
particular trait
Video
Field Corn
Largest crop in US
Native to North America
Used for animal feed, corn
oil, & ethanol – alcohol fuel
from corn
Biotechnology – genetic
engineering to improve
plants for producers or
consumers
GMO Video
https://www.google.com/ma
ps/@39.0245709,-93.725772
6,1452m/data=!3m1!1e3
Soybeans
Crop Rotation – rotating
grass (corn) & legume
(soybeans) to help soil
nutrients
Legume (nitrogen fixation)
– plants convert nitrogen
from the air to useable
nitrogen in the soil
Used for feed, ink, food,
oil, bio-diesel-fuel from
soybeans (crushing)
Wheat
Four types:
1. Soft Red Winter –
cookies, dough
2. Hard Red Winter –
bread flour
3. Hard Red Spring -
bread
4. Durum - Pastas
Vertical Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jix
DaIoJrAI
Quiz Time
Poultry
Poultry includes
both broilers, layers,
and turkeys
Largest Missouri
Industry
Raised in
confinement
Field heavily
irrigated – artificially
watered
Cotton
Grown in MO
bootheel
Cotton boll – head
on a cotton plant
BollGuard Cotton
Common Ag Equipment /
Machinery
Tractor
Combine
Video
Combine
Combine
Plow
Video – Plowing &
Field Disk Disking
No-Till Drill (not plowing, tilling or
disking soil)
Planter
Cultivator
Sprayer
Anhydrous Applicator
Anhydrous Ammonia – nitrogen held in soil for
future corn land
Application Video
Grain Truck
Auger