Agriculture
and YOU
How Agriculture Affects Our Lives
Georgia MSAGED6-1: Students will demonstrate the importance of
agriculture in daily life.
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Early Agriculture
• Everyone had to do it to eat
and survive!
• In 1776, 90% of the
population farmed.
Agriculture Today
• Today, only 1.8% of the population in
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the United States lives on a farm.
2% of the population means there are
2.5 million farms in the U.S. today.
One U.S. farmer can feed more than
129 people in the U.S. and 39 in
foreign countries.
It is the largest industry in the U.S.
employing over 20 million people.
Agriculture Is...
• plants
• animals
• clothing
• food
• shelter
• medicine
• machinery
• distribution
• sales and
marketing
• and science!
Why is agriculture
important
to me?
• The
U.S. spends a smaller
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percentage of their income on food:
only 9% compared to 20% in
Japan, 30% in Africa, and 50% in
Asia.
Less money spent on food means
more money to spend on other
things.
Products we use everyday come
from plants, animals, and byproducts.
No Farmers = No
Food
According to a 1995 USDA report, in
one year
the
average
American
ate:
• 394 pounds of vegetables
• 121 pounds of fresh fruit
• 192 pounds of cereal products
• 193 pounds of meat, poultry , and
fish
• 584 pounds of milk and dairy
products
Agriculture is part of your
life...
even if you don’t know it!
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lumber, paints,
brushes, tool
handles
fuel, antifreeze,
tires, upholstery
detergents,
lubricants
paper, ink, film
• shampoo,
cosmetics, lotions,
nail polish,
toothpaste
• crayons,
textbooks, chalk,
desks, pencils,
paper
• shoes, clothes,
belts
Ag Improves
How We Live
Science and technology is currently changing
the way we grow food and live.
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Precision Ag
Bio Fuels
Flood- and
Drought-Resistant
Crops
Colored/FireResistant Cotton
Fresh Water
Seafood
• Heat-Resistant
Chocolate
• Frost-Resistant
Fruits
• Edible Vaccines
• Non-Allergenic
Foods
Agriculture is More
Than Farming
• Everyone is affected by
agriculture everyday.
• Could you survive without
it?
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