Food for thought

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Agriculture in America

• Food for thought

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What would you be without Agriculture?
Question
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Answer

• Naked Hungry

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What is Agriculture?

• Agriculture Activities concerned with the
  production of plants and animals, and related
  supplies, services, mechanics, products,
  processing, and marketing.

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Agriculture defined

• USDA refers to agriculture as agriculture/agribus
  iness and renewable natural resources.
• food, fiber, and environmental systems

www.usda.gov
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Types of Agriculture

• Horticulture involves producing, processing,
  marketing fruits, vegetables, and ornamental
  plants
• Agronomy- The study of field crops.

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Types of Agriculture

• Animal Science- the study of the biology and
  managementof domestic animals.
• This includes livestock, small animals and pets.

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Types of Agriculture

• Forestry- timber management for lumber, poles,
  post, plywood, etc.

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Types of Agriculture

• Biotechnology- manipulation of living organisms
  and organic material to serve human needs
• Improving plants or animals
• To get desirable traits
• Economic gain
• Increase production
• Etc

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Types of Agriculture

• Soil Science- study of properties and management
  of soil.
• Aquaculture- growing and management of living
  things in the water.

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World Outlook

• The worlds population is continually expanding.
• More children are surviving to adulthood.
• More adults are living longer.
• What impact will this have on our resources?

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World Outlook

• Population growth will
• Add stress to environmental systems of air,
  water, soil, and natural resources.
• Create challenges to meet the demands for food
  and fiber (clothing and shelter).

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• While many people think that the farmer is
  becoming obsolete, this amount of population
  growth ensures that Agriculture will always be an
  essential industry.

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Food For Thought

• NCs 1 industry is agriculture and agribusiness
  
• In the US, most of our food is produced by less
  than 2 percent of the population.

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Food For Thought

• 59 of the citizens of the state - and an
  alarming 14 of our elected officials - were not
  aware that NC States College of Agriculture and
  Life Sciences even existed.

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Food is Affordable in the United States

• Income spent on food
• United Kingdom 10.2
• France 17.7
• Italy 19.2
• India 48.1
• Mexico 24
• USA 7.1

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Where Your Dollar Goes
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What are we eating??

• The average US citizen consumes yearly
• 21.6 gallons Milk
• 30.6 pounds Cheese
• 64.9 pounds Red Meat
• 253.4 Eggs
• 416.6 pounds Vegetables
• 194 pounds Flour and Cereal

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What is produced on Americas Farms?

• Total Livestock, Dairy, and Eggs
• 271,172,725,000 pounds
• Crops
• 1,729,733,056,100 pounds
• Corn ranks in the top five US exports every year

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Farms

• Texas has the most farms
• The average farm size in the US is 443 acres
• 13,390 farms have gone out of operation since
  2003
• 90 of farms are still family run

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The American Farmer

• Of Americas 2 million farms, 75 generate
  minimal or negative incomes.

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North Carolina Agriculture

• 1 in Tobacco, and Sweet Potatoes
• 2 Hogs, Christmas Trees, Turkeys
• 3 Poultry and Egg products, Cucumbers
• 4 Broilers, Nursery Production, Blueberries,
  Strawberries
• 56,000 farms in North Carolina

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• In North Carolina, the annual profits from the
  sale of broilers is more than 1 billion

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Swine farms in NC

• During the past ten years, the number of swine
  farms in North Carolina has decreased
• Farms in general are decreasing in number but
  increasing in size

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Durham County Agriculture

• Total Area in Agriculture,  26,074 Acres
• 238 Farms
• Average farm size 110 acres
• Average age of a Durham farmer 58
• Crops Tobacco, Soybeans, Wheat, Hay
• Livestock Cattle, Equine
• Other Veterinarians, Nursery, Food Service,
  Cooperative Extension Service

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Health concerns

• Health concerns has caused an increase in
  consumption of poultry
• Why?