1. Re-Imagine Butler County Agriculture
For 2018 and the Years Ahead

2. Farming in 1850 in Butler County

3. More Stats from 1850

4. Other Farm Animals in 1850

5. Corn, Oats, Wheat, Rye from 1850

6. Buckwheat, Cheese and Butter

7. Hay, Grass, Hops and Hemp

9. Two Simplest Answers to What’s Wrong With US Agriculture

10. What Happens To These Two?

11. What Happens To These Two?

12. Possibilities: Mushrooms

13. Possibilities: Potato Chips

14. Possibilities: Hemp Farming

15. Possibilities: Hemp Products

16. More PA Hemp Products

17. Possibilities: Oil Crop Production

18. Oil Crop Processing

19. Possibilities: Incubator Kitchens

20. Butler County’s Only Flour Mills

21. Possibilities: Beer Parts!: Hops and Malts!

22. Possibilities: Sawmills for Local Wood

23. Possibilities: Value Added Wood

24. Possibilities: More Vegetable Production

25. Possibilities: Solar and Biodiesel

26. Challenge: Less CAFOs

27. Challenge: Improper Subsidies

28. Possibilities: Community Gardening

29. Conclusions
Ag choice has become too simplified, for farmers and consumers.
Ag subsidies favor only the largest farms and crops.
Butler County has a rich heritage of agriculture and has possibility for change.
Farms need wider choice of crops, supported by government and business.
Processors will help change agriculture and add jobs.
Ag educators need to add crops and value adding to their options.
Government needs to add food education for consumers and work to add food processors to increase employment and economic independence.
Butler County has the land and infrastructure to change their agriculture.
Agriculture and food is an asset to a county for economic benefits.
County educators need to add ag and food related training and degrees.
Together, consumers, farmers, food businesses, educators and elected officials can create new options and new business and move our county forward.