FACTS OR FIBS? Food Production

Food Production: Fact or Fib? 1. Nitrogen is a non-renewable resource. Fib Nitrogen, carbon, and water all go through cycles.

Food Production: Fact or Fib? 2. N-P-K is a fertilizer ratio found on every bag of fertilizer. Fact The letters represent the percent of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium in each bag.

Food Production: Fact or Fib? 3. Many of the minerals that humans need in very small amounts for good nutrition are also needed by plants. Fact Iron, copper, nickel, manganese, and zinc are a few important minerals needed by both plants and animals.

Food Production: Fact or Fib? 4. Fertilizer is the proper term for toxic chemicals applied to crops to kill insects. Fib Insecticides are applied to kill harmful insects.

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 5. Plants can get diseases just as people and animals can. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 6. Insects can spread diseases. Fact Diseases such as malaria, equine encephalitis, and West Nile virus are all spread by biting and sucking insects.

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 7. If your family pet were infested with disease-causing insects you would take them to a veterinarian to get treatment. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 8. To kill harmful insects, the vet would prescribe an insecticide to kill the insects. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 9. Biting and sucking insects do not spread diseases to plants. Fib Biting, sucking and chewing insects spread disease to plants. Aphids, beetles, caterpillars, are among the insects that spread disease.

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 10. Plant diseases can wipe out crops, whole species of trees and cause famine. Fact A good example is the disease that wiped out potatoes and caused the Irish Famine.

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 11. Spreading disease is the only harm that insects do to crops and animals. Fib History has well documented plagues of locust that wiped out entire crops.

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 12. Diseases can spread from plant to plant and animal to animal without insects assisting the process. Fact Many diseases are spread in airborne methods or in animal to animal or plant to plant contact.

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 13. Many diseases in humans, animals and plants can be controlled. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 14. Prevention is one method to control diseases in humans, animals and plants. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 15. Vaccination is one method to prevent diseases in humans, and animals. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 16. Vaccination can also prevent diseases in plants. Fib

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 17. Antibiotics are another method to control diseases in humans, animals and plants. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 18. Antibiotics prevent diseases in humans, animals and plants just as vaccines do. Fib

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 19. Controlling insects is one way to prevent diseases in humans animals and plants. Fact

Food Production: Fact or Fibs? 20. Farmers spray some crops with fungicides to prevent fungal diseases. Fact