1. The Importance of Agriculture
-Agriscience in Our Lives-
Holton Agricultural Education Department
Agriculture Exploration Class

2. What was it like?

3. What was it like?
Every second was spent worrying about
your next meal.

4. Hunters and Gatherers
If you wanted to eat you either had to go
out and kill it or go out and gather it.

5. Hunters and Gatherers
Nature provided caves for shelter and wood
for fire.

6. Hunters and Gatherers
Wild animals provided meat for food and
clothing.

7. What is Agriscience?

8. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture -

9. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing,
and marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.

10. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing, and
marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Production involves the actual producing of
the food and fiber, this area includes all of
the inputs necessary for production and all of
the production labor.

11. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing, and
marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Production involves the actual producing of
the food and fiber, this are includes all of the
inputs necessary for production and all of the
production labor.
Grain, Livestock, and Fruit Farming

12. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing, and
marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Production involves the actual producing of
the food and fiber, this are includes all of the
inputs necessary for production and all of the
production labor.
Grain, Livestock, and Fruit Farming
Chemicals, fertilizers, & supporting agribusiness

13. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing,
and marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Processing involves the changing of a raw
natural product and converting it into a
useable, consumable product.

14. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing,
and marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Processing involves the changing of a raw
natural product and converting it into a
useable, consumable product.
Grain and Feed Milling, Meat Processing,
Saw Mills, etc.

15. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing,
and marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Marketing involves packaging, distribution,
and sales of finished agriculture products to
retailers and to the consumers.

16. What is Agriscience?
Agriculture - The production, processing,
and marketing of food, fiber, and renewable
natural resources.
Marketing involves packaging, distribution,
and sales of finished agriculture products to
retailers and to the consumers.
Shipping, advertising, restaurants, grocery
stores, lumber yards, etc.

17. What is Agriscience?
Agriscience Defined -

18. What is Agriscience?
Agriscience Defined - The application of
scientific principles and new technologies
relating to agriculture.

19. What is Agriscience?
Agriscience Defined - The application of
scientific principles and new technologies
relating to agriculture.
Agriscience makes our agriculture production
system more productive and efficient.

20. Agriscience - Science put into action.

21. Agriscience - Science put into action.
The Basic Sciences

22. Agriscience - Science put into action.
The Basic Sciences
– Biology
– Earth Science
– Chemistry
– Biochemistry
– Physics

23. Agriscience - Science put into action.

24. Agriscience - Science put into action.
The Applied Sciences

25. Agriscience - Science put into action.
Applied Sciences
– Horticulture
– Animal Science
– Agronomy
– Agriculture Mechanization
– Aquaculture
– Integrated Pest Management
– Irrigation

26. Agriscience - Science put into action.
Currently people in the united states only
spend 14 cents of every dollar they earn on
food.

27. Agriscience - Science put into action.
Currently people in the united states only
spend 14 cents of every dollar they earn on
food.
Food in the United State is cheaper than any
other place in the world.

28. Agriscience - Science put into action.
Currently people in the united states only
spend 14 cents of every dollar they earn on
food.
Food in the United State is cheaper than any
other place in the world.
Advances in agriscience are the reason!!!

29. Recent Agriculture Headlines

30. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin

31. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning

32. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Beef and Apple Juice

33. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones

34. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering

35. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering
-Bt Corn

36. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans

37. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans
Oprah Winfrey Trial

38. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans
Oprah Winfrey Trial -
I will never eat another burger

39. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin Pesticides in the drinking water
E. Coli Food Poisoning
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans
Oprah Winfrey Trial -
I will never eat another burger

40. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin Pesticides in the drinking water
E. Coli Food Poisoning Pesticide residues found on
fruit
Growth Hormones
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans
Oprah Winfrey Trial -
I will never eat another burger

41. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin Pesticides in the drinking water
E. Coli Food Poisoning Pesticide residues found on
fruit
Growth Hormones
BSE - Bovine Spongiform
Ecephalathy
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering -(Mad Cow Disease)
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans
Oprah Winfrey Trial -
I will never eat another burger

42. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin Pesticides in the drinking water
E. Coli Food Poisoning Pesticide residues found on
fruit
Growth Hormones
BSE - Bovine Spongiform
Ecephalathy
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering -(Mad Cow Disease)
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans Livestock waste runoff in water
Oprah Winfrey Trial -
I will never eat another burger

43. Recent Agriculture Headlines
BST - Bovine Somatotropin Pesticides in the drinking water
E. Coli Food Poisoning Pesticide residues found on
fruit
Growth Hormones
BSE - Bovine Spongiform
Ecephalathy
Biotechnology or genetic
engineering -(Mad Cow Disease)
-Bt Corn
-Roundup Ready Beans Livestock waste runoff in water
Oprah Winfrey Trial - Methane is depleting the ozone
I will never eat another burger and causing global warming

44. The Media Can Be Pretty Scary
You should know enough to make and
informed decision and find out the rest of
the information.

45. The Media Can Be Pretty Scary
You should know enough to make and
informed decision and find out the rest of
the information.
Knowledge is your protection.

46. The Media Can Be Pretty Scary
You should know enough to make and
informed decision and find out the rest of
the information.
Knowledge is your protection.
Intelligent people listen to all of the
information and then ask the right
questions.

47. The Media Can Be Pretty Scary
You should know enough to make and
informed decision and find out the rest of
the information.
Knowledge is your protection.
Intelligent people listen to all of the
information and then ask the right
questions.

48. What do you believe?
If you were to believe all of the negative
publicity about the agriculture industry then
you won’t be left with many options when
it comes time for dinner.

49. What do you believe?
If you were to believe all of the negative
publicity about the agriculture industry then
you won’t be left with many options when
it comes time for dinner.
Meat, grains, juices, fruit, vegetables, water,
milk, pasta, etc have all been challenged as
not safe by the recent media attention on
agriculture.

50. What do you believe?
If you were to believe all of the negative
publicity about the agriculture industry then
you won’t be left with many options when
it comes time for dinner.
Meat, grains, juices, fruit, vegetables, water,
milk, pasta, etc have all been challenged as
not safe by the recent media attention on
agriculture.
If all of these foods are unsafe then what is
left?

51. Are you hungry?

52. Are you hungry?
You will eat for the rest of your life.

53. Are you hungry?
You will eat for the rest of your life.
The more you know
about agriculture the
better off you will be!!!