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Introduction to Agricultural Production & Products

Discover the foundations of agriculture and its various activities, including food and fiber production, natural resource management, and product processing. Learn about different types of agriculture producers and the equipment used in the industry.

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Introduction to Agricultural Production & Products

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  1. Introduction to Agricultural Production & Products Ag Science I Mr. Dieckhoff

  2. Hieroglyphics Moment • On a sheet of printer paper, draw pictures (similar to what ancient Egyptians used) on what Agriculture means to you

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

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

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

  6. Value Added • Further processing to gain more value to consumer

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

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

  9. 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

  10. 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 • Judging Activity Video

  11. Field Corn • Largest crop in US • Native to North America • Used for animal feed, corn oil, & ethanol – alcohol fuel from corn • Biotechnology – genetic engineering to improve plants for producers or consumers GMO Video

  12. Soybeans • Crop Rotation – rotating grass (corn) & legume (soybeans) to help soil nutrients • Legume (nitrogen fixation) – plants convert nitrogen from the air to useable nitrogen in the soil • Used for feed, ink, food, oil, bio-diesel-fuel from soybeans

  13. Wheat • Four types: • Soft Red Winter – cookies, dough • Hard Red Winter – bread flour • Hard Red Spring - bread • Durum - Pastas

  14. Quiz Time

  15. Poultry • Poultry includes both chickens, egg layers, and turkeys • Largest Missouri Industry • Raised in confinement Poultry Placing Classes Activity

  16. 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

  17. Goats • Breeds for Dairy or Meat • Boer – breed of meat goat

  18. Sheep • Both wool and meat breeds • Club Lamb – lamb for show • Video

  19. Rice • Grown in MO bootheel • Field heavily irrigated – artificially watered

  20. Cotton • Grown in MO bootheel • Cotton boll – head on a cotton plant • BollGuard Cotton

  21. Common Ag Equipment / Machinery

  22. Tractor

  23. Combine Thresher Reaper Cuts the plant Separates grain from plant Combine Video

  24. Combine Bean/Wheat Head

  25. Combine Corn Head

  26. Plow

  27. Field Disk Video – Plowing & Disking

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

  29. Planter

  30. Cultivator

  31. Sprayer

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

  33. Grain Truck

  34. Auger Enclosed screw device used to transport grain

  35. Square Hay baler

  36. Video Round Hay Baler

  37. Hay Rake

  38. Cutting Hay Video Sickle Bar Rotary Disk Blades move along a channel to cut grass

  39. Tractor Wrecks

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