The Science Of Living Things
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The Science of Living Things
Chapter 1
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What is Agriscience?• All Jobs related to
plants, animals and renewable natural resources.
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What is Agriscience?
• The application of scientific principles and new technologies to agriculture.
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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
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Better Living Through Agriscience
Chapter 2
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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.
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Advancements
• Research
• Transportation
• Communication
• Medicine
• Chemicals
• Mechanization
• Precision Farming
• Molecular Engineering
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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
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Agriculture population
• 1800’s 90% of US population were farmers
• Today only 2% are farmers
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Agriscience Jobs
• 20% of all jobs are in the Agriscience field.
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Who going to feed the world?
• 6 billion 2000
• 7 billion 2010
• 8 billion 2022