2. Agriculture in the Classroom

3. What is agriculture?

4. What is agriculture?
The science of
growing crops

5. And raising livestock
What percentage of Illinois farms are family owned?

6. 97%

8. Chicago
Peoria
Illinois Crops
Champaign
St Louis

9. What is an Acre?

10. An acre is almost the size
of a football field!

11. How much land is available for farming?

12. Vegetable fruit or grain?
Corn
Vegetable fruit or grain?
Sweet corn, as in corn on the cob, belongs in the vegetable food group. Scientifically, corn is a structure to bear seeds making it a fruit…

13. Field corn is harvested after it dries
Field corn is harvested after it dries. It is soaked and milled so the germ, oil, starch and hulls can be separated and processed into over 4,000 products we use each day making it a grain

14. Soybeans Structure & Function

15. Wheat Structure & Function
Wheat is grown in almost every state. It’s so versatile it is being harvested somewhere in the world every month of the year!
Wheat Products

16. Hay & Straw

17. Oats
Structure & Function
Oat
Products

18. Game Time

21. A combine
is used to
harvest
crops

22. Harvested grain is stored in a grain elevator

23. Drones help farmers by…

24. Monitoring crops without driving to fields
Evaluate irrigation/nutrient needs of crops
Identifying need for pesticides

25. Is all food grown on land on a farm?
Hydroponics Aquaponics
&
Vertical

27. What do pigs provide to us?