Agricultural extension

I chose to major in agricultural and consumer economics with a concentration in agribusiness markets and management because of my family’s connection to agriculture. My father is a farmer and owns his own agriculture based business. My father’s business has inspired me to work in the agriculture industry and I would like to pursue a degree directly relate to that field. One goal I have for my future is to work in my father’s company and eventually, I would like to become CEO. My experiences…

media covers become more regular, the significance of the written language often becomes neglected. Therefore it is important to emphasize the significance of the written language and how this is a means of power. By going back in history, the agricultural communities show that the necessity of a means of power to be able to build a functional and abiding society constituted the result of the written language. Confirmation of its various usability makes a clear statement that everyone should be…

“SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS THAT AFFECT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CHOICE OF LIVELIHOOD IN RURAL AREAS” There are many commonalities among rural areas which can be seen in the socioeconomic factors that influence their agricultural sectors. Traditionally, rural areas are seen as regions of low population densities. However, with urbanization transpiring everywhere, it has become difficult to distinguish rural areas. Rural areas are marked by proximity to nature, small community size, low population…

family farming units. For example, in India, the small and marginal farmers constitute 84.97 percent operating in an area of 44.31 percent (Govt. of India, 2012). The scenario is replicated elsewhere also as the share of family farming in the total agricultural production is 40 per cent from 25 per cent of the farmland in Brazil, and 84 per cent from 47.4 per cent farmland in Fiji. Further, census data from ninety…

Indoor Farming!? The Potential Solution of the Ever-Flattening World? All my life I’ve been surrounded by farming. Yet I’ve always wondered what will happen to farming as we know today by how fast our population is growing. Where will we get the food to feed this ever-growing population? Well there is a new innovative idea that could become the solution, Vertical Farms! As Friedman says in “The World is Flat”, “Whatever can be done will be done. So, if you have an idea, pursue it. Because…

The Australian government should subsidise our farmers. Why? Because farmers grow our food, they breed and care for our livestock, they produce the basis of all our food: the raw materials. We need to help farmers produce food and materials for us. If we didn’t have farmers, who would produce food for us? Australian Farmers receive the second lowest subsidies in the world ranging at only 4% coming in only after New Zealand. Without farmers how would we survive? Where would we get our food?…

current agricultural policies. The US relationship between farming and the economy is complicated. By 1933 modernization and economic issues drove the passage of first Farm Bill, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, addressing production and protecting the American food supply…

The corporation and the food industry —consisting of factory farms— are directly responsible for the exploitation of workers and the public health and dietary crisis in America. Jim Hightower and Michael Pollan do an outstanding job exposing the lies behind the industries and revealing the truth to the consumers. The way our food industry has shifted has negatively impacted our society. Big corporations are running thousands of people out of jobs and treating their own employees unfairly and…

precedence over this domain. According to Hoppe (n.d.), the small family farms remain the leading component in the overall count of farms in the United States, as well as, accounting for approximately half of the farmland, however, the majority of the agricultural production remains the domain of the medium-sized and large-scaled family or industrialized farms. Consequently, because farms within the United States range from both exceedingly small retirement and residential…

OCCUPATIONS IN THE COLONIES GRQ’S The difference between a colonial farmer and a planter was that colonial farmers worked small, family-run farms, while planters were wealthy, educated, who oversaw the operations on their large farms, or plantations. Colonial farmers used plows, hoes, axes, and building tools to clear land, dig ditches, build fences, farm buildings, plow, and do other heavy labor. Planters used books to track expenses and sales. They dealt with the logistics rather than hard…