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Agriculture and Society
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During the 1800s, 95% of the U.S. population were farmers.
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Food and Fiber System
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Source of jobs and earning for the people in America.
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280,000 working this
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Food Production
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Food gets grown on farms & sold to markets for people to buy in order to eat.
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Gross 250,000
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Green Revolution
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Transformation in Agriculture.
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Chemicals, Fertilizers, Grains, H2o
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Industrialized Country
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When a country uses machineary to do harvesting.
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Surplus in food and fiber
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Farm To Market
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When food is grown on a farm to be sold in markets.
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Face-to-Face
International Whole Salers |
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Subsistence Farming
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Farming only for house consumption.
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Meets only th farmer's needs
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Shifting Cultivation
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A system in Agriculture used to clear a plot/plots of land by using modern or acncient techniques.
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Only done in developing nations
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Slash & Burn
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A technique used by the Mayans and Aztecs to clear their land to make soil more fertile to harvest crops.
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Can be both positive and negative
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Cheap Food
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Monocrops
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Depending on what type of food it is
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