Introduction to Agricultural

Production & Products

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 –

Science that studies the

activities of food, fiber, and
natural resources

Watch Video!
What is the foundation of
Agriculture?

Supplies, Services, Mechanics, Products Processing,

Marketing

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
 3214
 636
 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

Poultry Placing Classes Activity

 Dairy Cattle
 Raised near large cities
 Dairy Farmers of America
(DFA) Cooperative – business
where members buy or sell
together for more bargaining
power
 All milk is pasteurized (heated
to over 140 degrees and then
cooled)
 homogenization – pressurizing
milk to break-up fat particles
Goats
 Breeds for Dairy or
Meat
 Boer – breed of
meat goat
Sheep
 Both wool and meat
breeds
 Club Lamb – lamb
for show
 Video
Rice
 Grown in MO
bootheel

 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

Cuts the plant

Separates grain from
plant

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

Enclosed screw device

used to transport grain
Square Hay baler
Round Hay Baler Video
Hay Rake
 Cutting Hay

Blades move along a

channel to cut grass
Tractor Wrecks