Farming Conservation

What are the four parts of continual improvement

Plan, Do, Act, Check

What are the 4 main agricultrual risk

1. Uncertain weather conditions

2. uncertain prices

3. uncertain politics

4. family problems

What do you need to be good at risk management

Need to be resilient

What are 8 ways to be good at risk management

1. crop insurance

2. technology

3. second job

4. connections

5. crop rotation

6. livestock integration

7. increase soil health

8. value-added market

What are the 4 things you need to do to be ag litterate

1. Ability to read/speak/listen and think strategically

2. ability to lean across content areas

3. ability to communicate learning in many forms to others

4. ability to transfer learning to new situations and context

What are the four steps in the pyramid of the Ag literacy profession pyramid

1. uninterred/unaware

2. science interested

3. science attentive

4. science engaged

How many farms does IL have and how many are over 1000 acres

70,000 farms but only 10% over 1000 acres

has farm amount decreased or increased over time and why

decreased because of price volatity higher inflation and lowered buying power has decreased

What does FBFM do

helps farmer with money management decisions

what are ethical I problems

problems where there’s no general arguments about what’s right and wrongwh

what are Ethical II problems

problems everyone knows the right and wrong to

what is a social license

Ongoing approval of a community to an industry or project

what is Dicampa and its problems

its a herbicide; controversy causes its a harmful herbicide that can evaporate and flow on wind to harm other plants but arguments of all farmers should just have dicampa resistant beans and corn

what is crop insurance and who pays for it and its possible problems

It helps farmers cover the revenue of their crops and is paid mostly by the taxpayers; however, some farmers abuse it with fraud and take money falsely

what is the spot checklist

its when a suspicious activity is sported by a computer program and puts someone basically on a watch list and sees what the do for a while keep them from getting higher payouts and frauds

what are patterns of collusion

when farmers work with others to commit fraud of some kind for money

what is yeild switching

when a farmer moves their farm yields of one acre to another to raise or lower the true yield to get crop insurance payout the most common version of fraud

how is progress in the ag industry measured

through the ability to control factors normally beyond normal control and creating efficiency

what does socity think ag to be like

multi functional and do things such as

1. food production

2. rural employment

3. taxes exemptions

4. wildlife habitat

5. carbon sequestration

6. recreation purposes

what does industrialization of ag increase and decrease

it will increase functions of production like food but lower things like non-production like pollution create and creating resisted pathogens

what is a carbon credit

a credit given to farmers who are productive and create lower carbon emission which will pay them to do things to lower green house gasses

how has crop productivity changed throughout the years of human civilization

The productivity has stayed the same in human farming from Egyptian times to the 1600s until the mechanical revolution happened, and productivity soared to tremendous amounts

what is productivity mean in agriculture

relationship between ag inputs and outputs

NOT (yield = productivity)w

what are three ways to increase Ag productivity

1. more efficient use of labor

2. more efficient use of inputs

3. more timely operations

what is bottlenecking in agriculute

a phenomenon where the performance as a whole are limited by a single factor

what is the biggest bottle neck in agriculture today

photosynthesis uptake by plants as right now it’s only 1-3%h

how has modern ag overcome other bottleneck events

fossil fuels

What is the problem with the american food balance

more energy is going into making the food than is being used as consumable calories because the energy it takes to package and ship and handle food is so high.

what did Jeethro tull create

he created the row crop farming increase yield sizes and productivity

what did Eli whitney event

he made the Cotton gin to easily seperate cotton seed and fluff and he also created machines to use interchangeable sides

what did Charles Newbold create

he created the first cast iron plow

what did the invention of the cotton gin create

1. created increase in cotton gained

2. major slavery increase

3. industrialized of textile production started