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Agriculture Part 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Luxury Crops | non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco. |
| Von Thunen Model Assumptions | Given the model's assumptions, the pattern that emerges predicts more-intensive rural land uses closer to the marketplace, and more-extensive rural land uses farther from the city's marketplace. |
| Von Thunen Model | An agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activities in terms of rent |
| Von Thunen Results | The Von Thunen model is an excellent illustration of the balance between land cost and transportation costs. As one gets closer to a city, the price of land increases. |
| Food Production vs Agriculture | Some common agricultural goods are raised for nonfood purposes: corn for ethanol, rubber for tires, leather for shoes, and so on. Many food products produced from plants and animals using methods that are not agriculture |
| Genetically Modified Organisms | organisms that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods |
| Biotechonology | use of genetically engineered crops in agriculture & DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase production. |
| Feedlots | Places where livestock are concentrated in very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to factory farms |
| Transportation and agriculture | Modern technological advances in transportation, such as refrigerated trucks, have allowed farmers to ship items at great distances. |
| Globalization of Agriculture | Consumer driven agriculture integrated on an international scale. |
| Agribusiness | large scale, mechanized industrial agricultural for commercial purposes. Includes seed production, planting, harvesting, transportation, processing, retail, and consumption |
| Agriculture Production in the US | mechanization and new technologies has caused a decrease in the amount of workers needed for agricultural production in the US |
| Environmental Implications of Agriculture | plots of earth have been cleared so that more desirable/profitable crops can be grown; ag lands erode quickly, organic content of soil changes, and natural vegetation, and chemicals are found in soil due to fertilizers |
| Urban Sprawl and Agriculture | unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning |
| Organic Agriculture | approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicieds, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs |
| Primary Economic Activities besides Agriculture | economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment; such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture |
| Resource Terminology | a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed. |
| Fishing | the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water |
| Aquaculture | use of river segments or artificial bodies of water such as ponds for the raising and harvesting of food products including fish, shellfish, and seaweed |
| Forestry | the art, science, and practice of studing and managing forests and plantations and related natural resources |
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