1. What is Agriscience?
The Science of Living
Things

2. Better Living Through Research
 What role will you play in the challenging task
of producing the food and fiber that will be
required by future generations?

3. Better Living Through Research
 Agriscience has changed the comfort,
convenience, and safety of people today.
 In the United States, 9.9% of our wages are
spend on food.
– Other nations spend more than half
 Scientistshave discovered new ways to
produce greater amounts of food and fiber
from 1 acre of agricultural land.

4. Definitions
 Agriculture vs. Agriscience
 Agriculture/Agribusiness and Renewable
Natural Resources
– Refers to the broad range of activities in
agriculture

5. Jobs in Agriculture
 12 % production agriculture (farming or
ranching)
 88% non farm / non ranch (sales, research,
processing, education, plant and animal
health)
 Technology plays an important part in
agriculture

6. What is Agriculture?

7. Terms to Define
 renewable natural resources  animal science technology
 Technology  crop science
 industrial technology  soil science
 high technology  Biotechnology
 Agribusiness  integrated pest management
 Aquaculture  organic food
 agricultural engineering  water resources
 Turf  environment

8. Agriscience Around Us
 Agriscience and technologies have changed food
and fiber production from hand labor to highly
mechanized.
 The average farmer produces enough food for about
144 people.
 Agriculture is a GLOBAL industry. The United State
imports and exports many products daily.
– Flowers  South American, Bulbs  Holland, Meat 
Argentina
– Lumber  U.S to Japan returns as plywood

9. Agriscience Around Us
 Irrigation
transformed the great dust bowl of
the American West into the “bread basket”.
 Journalism and Communications
 Radio and Television
 “Saturday Morning Topics”
– Sally Cunningham – Channel 4 News on Sunday

10. Possible Careers to Research
 Agriscientist