Ag Sustainability
Each slat represents a factor influencing sustainable agricultural production.
What is the sustainability barrel?
The artificial application of water to the land or soil to assist plant growth.
What is irrigation?
Right place, Right time, Right source, Right rate
What is the 4R Nutrient Stewardship System?
Earning money and creating jobs
What is the foundation for an economy?
This much of our Earth is ideal for growing crops
What is 3%?
The simple planting of a seed starts a chain of events that help the farmer, community, and eventually the world.
What is the ripple effect?
Water is sent through plastic pipes that ae laid along the crop rows. The tiny holes allows water to drip at the base of the plants.
What is drip irrigation?
Manure, fertilizer, organic sources/compost
What are examples of where plant nutrients come from?
A place where goods and services are sold.
What is a market?
This is the percentage of the population that are Farmer and Ranchers in North America
What is 2%?
Meeting the economic, social, and environmental needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future.
What is sustainability?
This is a large sprinkling system that moves around a center point in a field.
What is center-pivot irrigation?
Insects, weed infestations, diseases, and nutrient deficiencies
What is can make a plant sick or die?
The ability of a business owner (e.g. Farmer) to sell his or her goods to other people or companies
What is Market Access?
These countries have the highest potential to make the most improvements
What are developing countries?
The science or practice of farming; cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock.
What is agriculture?
Furrows are dug between plant rows. Water is delivered to each row by a series of ditches or hoses. Crops are irrigated as water flows to the end of each row.
What is Flood (Furrow) irrigation?
These are the three primary nutrients plants need to grow.
What are Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), and Potassium (K)?
Market prices fluctuate based on these principles
What is supply and demand?
Different kinds of the same type of seeds that can be planted to grow crops more successfully in different climates
What are new seed varieties?
Relating to the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought.
What is economics?
The space between land and the waterway, ideally filled with native grass, bushes, and trees.
What is a riparian area?
The best way of doing something. In farming it enables us to grow more with less.
What is Best Management Practices?
The basic equipment and structures (such as roads and bridges) that are needed for a country, region or organization to function properly
What is infrastructure?
Scientific or technical ways to sustainably use and protect natural resources in order to prevent loss or waste
What are conservation technologies?