Describing the Effect of Ag On Our Society

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Describing the Effect of Ag On Our Society

• A quick look at how ag effects all of us.

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Agricultural Roles

• Most important to the well being of our nation
• Forerunner of the industrial revolution, the
  services era, and the current information age.
• Responsible for feeding nations and producing
  goods for trade.

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Early times of our country

• Society depended on an agrarian economy
• Ag employed 90 of population
• Food costs took 60 cents from every dollar earned
• Majority of exports were solely ag products

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Recent times

• Society depends on a well rounded economy
• Produce more and more food with fewer resources
• Americans spend less than 17 of their average
  earnings on food
• Ag commodities account for only 20 of exports

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Can American Ag Stand Alone?

• Absolutely not!!
• A close relationship exists between American ag
  and foreign countries
• American ag increasingly depends on world trade
  for both imports and exports

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Terminology

• Imports-any type of good that is transported into
  our country
• Export- any type of good that is transported to
  other countries

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Trade

• We export more than 36 billion worth of ag
  products annually
• Jobs related to the exportation of ag products
  employ more than one million people in the U.S.
• These numbers enable the U.S. to enjoy a
  favorable balance of trade.

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Export Examples

• Export 60 of our wheat and rice
• 50 of our cotton
• 40 of our soybeans
• 30 of our feed grains and tobacco

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What would the world do without the United States?
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Make no Mistake

• Food Power

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World Uses

• 80 of our corn is consumed
• 80 of our soybeans
• 40 of the worlds wheat comes from the U.S
• 24 of the worlds rice also
• Even U.S tobacco is widely used

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References

• IMS