Life without Argiculture: What would you Imagine?

Video:  Imagine life without agriculture

                                                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zKzz-GP-o

The video “Imagine Life without Agriculture” is a simple way that shows how important agriculture is. It has lots of good pictures and videos that show many aspects of agriculture.  It shows fields being harvested by combines, different animals close up, and different fruits and vegetables when they are being grown. Most people when they go to the grocery store don’t think about kiwi’s being grown on trees.  It also shows some of the different processes that can occur with crop production. It shows plowing, checking the soil, irrigation, and harvesting.

Another part of the video that is really good is that it shows lots of different things that are produced from animals and crops. Many products are used by people on an everyday basis, but people have no idea where they come from. Tires on vehicles, toothpaste, and cosmetics contain animal fat. There is tallow in soap and an individual’s shampoo and conditioner contain animal gelatin. At the beginning of the video it has both the shocking and scary fact that most Americans are removed from agriculture by 3 generations. This I believe is definitely a true fact.

In high school through our FFA program I gained a lot of information about others knowledge base about agriculture. My senior year I was privileged along with 3 other students, our ag teacher, and an FFA alumni member to go to a Minneapolis school to teach 6^th graders about agriculture. These students had never been to a farm and knew little about agriculture. The first day we were able to teach them in the classroom for an hour and the next morning they were able to take a field trip out to some local farms in my area. We had games related to agriculture that we played on the two hour bus ride and then they toured a turkey, pig, and cattle farm. Also they heard from local farmers and FFA alumni members. Being able to educate others about agriculture is both important and a fun opportunity. If agriculturalist want their story told right, it is important that they tell it. People are willing to listen and if they do not know the real story it is easy enough for them to believe a wrong story if they hear that version first.  This is why I think it is great that there are videos out there like the "Imagine Life without Agriculture" so the world can see more of what is really happening out on the farm.