Agricultural introductions method of current condition

1. So….What is Agriculture?
 Agriculture –
Science that studies the
activities of food, fiber, and
natural resources
Watch Video!

2. What is the foundation of
Agriculture?
Production Agriculture
Supplies, Services, Mechanics, Products Processing,
Marketing

3. But….Ag Producers Get the
Smallest Piece of the Pie

4. Value Added
 Further processing to gain more value to
consumer

5. Value-Added Food Activity
 With the people at your table, develop
a value-added food product to be
marketed across the US in
supermarkets.

6. Common Types of Agriculture
Producers in Missouri
 Beef Cattle
 Swine
 Corn
 Soybeans
 Wheat
 Poultry
 Dairy Cattle
 Goats
 Sheep
 Rice
 Cotton

7. 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

8. 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

9. Wheat
 Four types:
1. Soft Red Winter –
cookies, dough
2. Hard Red Winter –
bread flour
3. Hard Red Spring -
bread
4. Durum - Pastas

10. Vertical Farming
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jix
DaIoJrAI

11. Quiz Time

12. 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

13. Sheep
 Both wool and meat
breeds
 Club Lamb – lamb for
show
 Video

14. Rice
 Grown in MO
bootheel
 Field heavily irrigated
– artificially watered

15. Cotton
 Grown in MO
bootheel
 Cotton boll – head on
a cotton plant
 BollGuard Cotton

16. Common Ag Equipment /
Machinery

17. Tractor

18. Combine
Cuts the plant
Separates grain from
plant
Video

19. Combine

20. Combine

22. Field Disk
Video – Plowing &
Disking

23. No-Till Drill (not plowing, tilling or
disking soil)

24. Planter

25. Cultivator

26. Sprayer

27. Anhydrous Applicator
Anhydrous Ammonia – nitrogen held in soil for
future corn land
Application Video

28. Grain Truck

29. Auger
Enclosed screw device
used to transport grain

30. Square Hay baler

31. Round Hay Baler Video

32. Hay Rake

33. Cutting Hay
Blades move along a
channel to cut grass

34. Tractor Wrecks