Agriculture Assignment #1: Von Thünen s Model. 1. City Center/Market. 2. Truck Farming/Dairy. 3. Forests. 4. Field Crops no fallow

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1 Agriculture Assignment #1: Von Thünen s Model Explain the location of each zone in the model 1. City Center/Market 2. Truck Farming/Dairy 3. Forests 4. Field Crops no fallow Limitations to using Von Thünen s Model today 5. Field crops fallow 6. Livestock grazing

2 Agriculture Assignment #3: Commercial Agriculture Where does our food come from? Meat (beef, chicken): Why does your meat have so much corn in it? Grains (wheat bun): Why does it depend on the season? How have machines made it easier? Soft Drink (sugar): Relationship between plantation agriculture and MDCs? Dairy (cheese): Location of milk vs cheese: Truck Farming: How does it depend on the season? Why might the cheese be more expensive today? Who does the work?

3 Mixed crop and livestock farming: What crops are grown? What are most of the crops used for? Livestock Ranching: (feedlot-cafo) What is ranching? Where does it occur? Why there? Where does this occur? Where does poultry occur? Why there? Crop Rotation What is crop rotation and why is it practiced? How has ranching changed? (How is it related to meat processing now? What is a CAFO?) Dairy farming: (milkshed) Where are dairy farms located? Why there? Mediterranean agriculture: Where is it practiced? Why there? What are the challenges facing dairy farmers today? What types of crops are grown? How has sprawl and drought impacted agriculture in California? Grain farming: What is considered a grain? Where does grain farming occur? Why there? Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming: Where is it practiced? Why there? How has technology changed grain farming? What kind of crops? How do they keep their costs down? (migrant labor)

4 Agriculture Assignment #2: What is the difference between MDC and LDC agriculture? Commercial Agriculture (MDCs) Farm Size Subsistence Agriculture (LDCs) Farm Size Purpose of Farming Purpose of Farming Number of Farmers Number of Farmers Use of Machinery Use of Machinery Use of Pesticide and Chemicals Use of Pesticides and Chemicals Connection to Industry Connection to Industry

5 Agriculture Assignment #4: What does agriculture look like in LDCs? Shifting Cultivation (slash-and-burn or swidden agriculture): What is it? Where does it occur? Intensive subsistence (wet rice dominant): What is it? What kind of crops? Benefits and drawbacks? Where is it practiced? Benefits and drawbacks? (double cropping) Intensive subsistence (wet rice not dominant): What is it? What crops are produced? Where is it practiced? Pastoral Nomadism (transhumance): What is it? Where does it occur? Plantation Agriculture: What is it? Where does it occur? What kind of animals? Benefits and drawbacks? What is the relationship between MDCs and LDCs in plantation agriculture?

6 Assignment #5: Was the Green Revolution good for the world? (Use text pages ) Green Revolution: The event that began in the 1950s and 1960s where scientists, concerned about population issues, created higheryielding sees (miracle seeds) and expanded the use of chemical fertilizers. Scientist Norman Borlaug won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts The Green Revolution was good for the world because Evidence #1: Evidence #2: The Green Revolution was NOT good for the world because Evidence #1: Evidence #2: What was the Green Revolution and how is it similar to and different from the First and Second Agricultural Revolutions? How is the Green Revolution similar to the Medical Revolution?

7 Assignment #6: GMOs Saving or Destroying the World? Directions: Watch the two short videos linked under this assignment on schoology and take notes to prepare for a socratic discussion. GMOs are saving the world GMOs are destroying the world