The Science of Living Things

Chapter 1

What is Agriscience?• All Jobs related to

plants, animals and renewable natural resources.

What is Agriscience?

• The application of scientific principles and new technologies to agriculture.

Areas in Agriscience

• Aquaculture• Ag Engineering• Animal Science• Crop Science• Soil Science• Biotechnology• Integrated Pest

Management• Ag Business

• Forestry• Wildlife Management• Ag Economics• Environmental

Engineer• Entomology• Horticulture• Extension &

Education

Better Living Through Agriscience

Chapter 2

Poverty

• What made America the great nation it is today?

• People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. August 1936.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Advancements

• Research

• Transportation

• Communication

• Medicine

• Chemicals

• Mechanization

• Precision Farming

• Molecular Engineering

Important innovations in Ag

• 1793 – Eli Whitley, cotton gin

• 1834 – McCormick invents reaper

• 1837 – Thomas Jefferson, iron plow

• 1850 – EW Quincy, corn picker

• 1850 – Joseph Glidden, Barbed Wire

• 1878 – Anna Baldwin, milking machine

• 1904 – Benjamin Holt, Tractor

Agriculture population

• 1800’s 90% of US population were farmers

• Today only 2% are farmers

Agriscience Jobs

• 20% of all jobs are in the Agriscience field.

Who going to feed the world?

• 6 billion 2000

• 7 billion 2010

• 8 billion 2022