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A History of AgricultureA History of Agriculture
Eric Stormer
Virginia Cooperative Extension
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Terms To KnowTerms To Know
• Agriculture Industry• Agriculture• Agribusiness• Aquaculture• Biotechnology• Domestication• Farming• Forestry• Inventions
• Natural Resources• Ornamental
Horticulture• Suburban Farming• Technology
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What is Agriculture, and how does it influence our lives?
What is Agriculture, and how does it influence our lives?
• Agriculture is the science of growing crops and raising animals to meet the needs of humans.
• The agriculture industry includes all of the activities needed to provide people with food, clothing and shelter. It includes farm and non-farm operations.
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Defining AgribusinessDefining Agribusiness
• Agribusiness is all of the nonfarm work in the agriculture industry. The two main areas of agribusiness are:• Supplies and Services• Marketing and Processing
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What is Farming?What is Farming?
• Farming is using the land and other resources to grow crops, and raise animals.• Suburban Farming is using small areas of land
in residential and business areas to produce crops and animals.
• Aquaculture is farming in water. Aquaculture includes production of fish as well as plants such as water cress and water chestnuts.
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What is Farming, Cont’d.What is Farming, Cont’d.
• Forestry is the production and use of trees.
• The agriculture industry also includes items that make the lives of people better.• Ornamental Horticulture is producing plants
for their beauty.• Natural resources are all of the things found in
nature, including living organisms, minerals, soil, water and air.
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12,000 BC12,000 BC
• People of the Natufian culture, living in the Southwest Asia (Middle East) begin to cultivate cereals; grasses grown for their edible seeds.
• (Ceres - the Roman goddess of grain.)
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9,800 BC9,800 BC
• Earliest evidence for domesticated wheat is found at sites in the Middle East.
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8,500 BC8,500 BC
• People across the Fertile Crescent begin growing domestic wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch.
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8500 BC8500 BC
• Sheep and Goats are domesticated.
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The Fertile Crescent
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7,000 BC7,000 BC
• Native Americans - Indians, Hawaiians and Eskimos - begin simple farming.
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6,800 BC6,800 BC
• Rice is domesticated in Southeast Asia.
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6,500 BC6,500 BC
• Evidence that cattle are domesticated in Turkey.
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4,000 BC, Cont’d4,000 BC, Cont’d
• Evidence that rice is domesticated in northwestern Thailand.
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4,000 BC, Cont’d.4,000 BC, Cont’d.
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Plowing the FieldsPlowing the Fields
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4,000 BC 4,000 BC
• Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast.
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What Similarities Exist Here?
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3,500 BC3,500 BC
• First agriculture in the Americas, around Ecuador.
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2,000 BC2,000 BC
• Evidence of the domestication of chickens around India. (Some sources state that this may have happened earlier in other parts of the world.)
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Chicken BreedsChicken Breeds
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600600
• The moldboard plough is invented in eastern Europe.
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850850
• Use of coffee is known in Arabia.
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1,0001,000
• Corn is being raised by Native Americans in large plots.
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Ancestor to Modern CornAncestor to Modern Corn
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16071607
• Indians show the Plymouth Rock colonists how to grow crops such as corn, pumpkins, squash and beans.
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16111611
• A shipment of livestock arrived in the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. This shipment became the foundation for livestock production in colonies of the southeast.
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17011701
• Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
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Modern Seed DrillModern Seed Drill
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17931793
• Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
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18091809
• Nicholas Appert invents canning for food preservation.
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18341834
• Cyrus McCormick invents the reaper.
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The McCormick ReaperThe McCormick Reaper
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The McCormick ReaperThe McCormick Reaper
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1837
• John Deere invents the steel plow.
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A Horse Drawn PloughA Horse Drawn Plough
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A Modern PloughA Modern Plough
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18551855
• Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian Inheritance.
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18711871
• Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization.
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2000s2000s
• Improved varieties of corn are developed. These varieties exhibit additional resistance to pests and diseases.
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2000s2000s
• Development of new pesticides.
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2000s2000s
• Genetically modified organisms are cultivated around the world.
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2000s2000s
• Computers are developed and begin to be widely used in agriculture.
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2000s2000s
• Biotechnology, the science to change organisms or their environment, or to get products from organisms, begins to be used.