Commercial Agriculture

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Commercial Agriculture

• Mini-Group Quiz

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Type 1

• These types of farms are usually located close to
  urban areas.
• Extra point if you can answer WHY?
• Dairy Farming needs to be close to urban areas
  because milk spoils quickly-if it cannot be
  transported to its market in time it cannot be
  sold!

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Type 2

• You will usually find this kind of farming where
  you cannot plant crops
• Extra point if you can name the region in South
  America that does this kinds of farming
• Livestock Ranching is practiced in the Pampas
  of Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay

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Type 3

• The most common form of commercial agriculture in
  the US west of the Appalachians
• Extra point if you can name the practice adopted
  by these farmers to get the most out of their
  land
• Mixed Crop and Livestock farming- crop rotation
  is when each field is planted on a cycle

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Type 4

• The US hardly practices this type of farming
  anymore because it is too expensive.
• Extra point if you can name three of the crops
  grown with this kind of farming
• Plantation farming is mainly found in poorer
  nations where cotton, coffee, sugarcane, rubber
  and tobacco are major crops

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Type 5

• Most work done with this kind of farming is in
  the spring and the fall
• Extra point if you can give the nickname for the
  prairies that produce this crop
• Grain farming- places where it is farmed is often
  referred to as the worlds breadbasket

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Type 6

• For this type of farming you need long growing
  seasons, humid climates and nearness to markets.
• Extra point if you can name and explain another
  phrase used to identify this kind of farming
• Commercial gardening and fruit farming is also
  called truck farming- truck originally meant
  barter

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Type 7

• This kind of farming allows for a variety of
  crops to be planted within one farming area
• Extra point if you can name two of the crops
  mainly produced with this kind of farming
• Mediterranean farming produces crops like grapes,
  olives, flowers, fruits and veges.

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