Farm Facts

Student Name

Class Period

How are You connected to Agriculture?(page 23)

Personal Care

Construction

Health Care

Manufacturing

Entertainment

Education

Sports

Printing

Transportation

Products we use in our everyday lives come from

How many people does one farmer feed?

Year Number of people 1 farmer feeds.

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

Today

Who pays the least for food?

0 %

5 %

1 0 %

1 5 %

2 0 %

U .S .A . J a p a n F r a n c e I n d o n e s i a

What does the U.S. Department of Agriculture spend $88.8 billion dollars on?

F o o d & N u t r i t i o n

F a r m P r o g r a m s

O t h e r

Food and Nutrition program includes: school lunch, food stamps, WIC and other government food and welfare programs.Farm Programs give money,

training and supplies to farmers to help them stay in business

Opportunity cost

• Opportunity cost is the cost incurred (sacrifice) by choosing one option over the next best alternative (which may be equally desired). Thus, opportunity cost is the cost of pursuing one choice instead of another.

• An acre is about the size of ???• An acre produces ??? Pounds of cotton or ???

Pounds of strawberries.• A farmer could choose to sell an acre of farm

land. An acre can be divided up into 4 home lots. If each home lot sells for $100,000, How much is the acre worth if the farmer sells it?

If a person spends one dollar on food, what percentage of that $ goes to the FARMER and what

percentage goes to OFF FARM costs? (Look at page 15 and change the percentages below)

Off farm %

Farm ?? %

The Farmer gets 19 cents out of every dollar spent, but he has to pay his bills.

PROFIT = INCOME – COSTS ($ collected minus the bills!)

The Farmers Expenses include:• Fertilizer, Seed, Crop-Protecting Chemicals

What is the U.S. Share of world production?