1. AIM: What types of farming are prevalent in MDCs and why?
Do Now: What does it mean if a farmer is engaged in mixed crop agriculture?

2. Mixed Crop Farming

3. Describe the irony between the amount of land devoted to crops vs
Describe the irony between the amount of land devoted to crops vs. animals and the income generated by each in this region.

4. How does mixed-crop agriculture allow farmers to more evenly distribute their workload?
Farmers grow multiple crops and can constantly work.
Plant Winter Wheat in the fall (harvest in the early summer)
Plant Spring Wheat in the spring (harvest in the autumn)
-Raise livestock (all year)

5. Nearly all the land is devoted to growing crops, but 75% of the income comes from sale of animal products.
Farmers can continue to produce crops all year round when they engage in crop rotation. Livestock farming is a year long venture too.

6. Define/Describe the following as they relate to crop rotation.
Cereal Grains – grains such as oats, wheat, barley and rye. Very profitable and produce many products.
Fallow – a field left alone for a period of time to regain nutrients.
Rest Crop – A crop that puts nutrients back in the soil needed to grow cereal grains (clovers)

7. Cereal Grains

8. Fallow Field

9. Rest Crop

10. The U.S. Corn-belt
The Corn Belt extends from the Dakotas to Ohio and centers in Iowa.
The second most important crop is soy beans.

11. United States Corn-belt

12. Corn

13. Corn’s uses
Corn, popcorn, oil, margarine, feed for livestock, bread, corn-syrup

14. Milkshed
The ring surrounding a city where milk can be supplied without spoiling.
When milk producing regions are too far from a city center to produce milk without spoiling, they will sell their milk to processors who make cheese, butter, cream and condensed milk. (Wisconsin, New Zealand)

15. Cheeseheads
Have you ever wondered why Packers fans are called Cheeseheads?

16. Milk Production in the USA

17. India is the world’s largest producer of milk. U.S. = #2
Challenges
Declining revenues
Rising costs
Labor Intensive (cows must be milked 2-3 times a day.)
Expensive to feed cows

18. Milking Cows

19. Dairy

20. Winter-Wheat Belt – Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma
Grains grown on commercial grain farms are grown for human consumption. Grains from mixed farms are for animal consumption.
Winter-Wheat Belt – Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma
Spring-Wheat Belt – Dakotas, Montana, and southern Saskatchewan
Palouse region in Washington State

21. Wheat

22. Farmers own fields in both wheat belts and transport their machines between both areas.
a more expensive grain
Can be stored easily without spoiling
High value per unit weight
Used in breakfast cereals and flour production

23. Wheat Belt in USA