Agriscience involves using science to improve agriculture and produce more food. It has changed food production from manual labor to highly mechanized processes. Scientists have discovered new ways through agriscience to produce more food from less land to feed future generations. Agriscience also improves living standards by making food production more efficient and convenient. It is a global industry with many countries importing and exporting agricultural products daily.

1. What is Agriscience?
The Science of Living
Things

2. Better Living Through Research
 What role will you play in the challenging task
of producing the food and fiber that will be
required by future generations?

3. Better Living Through Research
 Agriscience has changed the comfort,
convenience, and safety of people today.
 In the United States, 9.9% of our wages are
spend on food.
– Other nations spend more than half
 Scientistshave discovered new ways to
produce greater amounts of food and fiber
from 1 acre of agricultural land.

4. Definitions
 Agriculture vs. Agriscience
 Agriculture/Agribusiness and Renewable
Natural Resources
– Refers to the broad range of activities in
agriculture

5. Jobs in Agriculture
 12 % production agriculture (farming or
ranching)
 88% non farm / non ranch (sales, research,
processing, education, plant and animal
health)
 Technology plays an important part in
agriculture

6. What is Agriculture?

7. Terms to Define
 renewable natural resources  animal science technology
 Technology  crop science
 industrial technology  soil science
 high technology  Biotechnology
 Agribusiness  integrated pest management
 Aquaculture  organic food
 agricultural engineering  water resources
 Turf  environment

8. Agriscience Around Us
 Agriscience and technologies have changed food
and fiber production from hand labor to highly
mechanized.
 The average farmer produces enough food for about
144 people.
 Agriculture is a GLOBAL industry. The United State
imports and exports many products daily.
– Flowers  South American, Bulbs  Holland, Meat 
Argentina
– Lumber  U.S to Japan returns as plywood

9. Agriscience Around Us
 Irrigation
transformed the great dust bowl of
the American West into the “bread basket”.
 Journalism and Communications
 Radio and Television
 “Saturday Morning Topics”
– Sally Cunningham – Channel 4 News on Sunday

10. Possible Careers to Research
 Agriscientist