1. (Intensive or Extensive)
Distinctions in Agriculture: Kuby pg Get out a new piece of notebook paper and recreate this chart below…
Need for
capital & labor
(both intensive)
Type of Land Use
(Intensive or Extensive)
Goal of Agriculture
Location Type
Use of Water

2. Grain farming…
intensive or extensive? Why?
Labor or capital?

3. Vegetable garden…
intensive or extensive? Why?
Labor or capital?

4. Distinctions in Agriculture
Need for
capital & labor
(both intensive)
Type of Land Use
(Int or Ext)
Goal of Agriculture
Location Type
Use of Water
Capital intensive:
-heavy use of machines, few ppl.
-MDC’s
Labor intensive:
-large #’s of ppl and little capital.
-Usually LDC’s but some MDC crops still require human hands.
Intensity (use) depends on price of land and population.
Intensive:
Large amount of output per acre usually to small plots of land.
Concentrated use of labor/capital
EX: Rice. Greenhouses
Extensive:
Smaller output so you need more space.
Ex: wheat in U.S or a nomadic goat herder
Subsistence: farmer feeds family. Maybe a little surplus.
LDC’s
Commercial:
Farmer wants to profit, make a buck.
MDC’s
(capital intensive)
Sedentary: live and work in one place.
Most farming is this.
Nomadic: organized movement based on seasons.
Land use Extensive.
Ex: shifting cultivation and herding.
Irrigation: artificial watering (expensive)
Non-irrigated: rain happens.

5. Distinctions in Agriculture
Need for
capital & labor
(both intensive)
Type of Land Use
(Int or Ext)
Goal of Agriculture
Location Type
Use of Water

6. Farmer’s Almanac

7. You will create a Farmer’s Almanac for a specific type of agriculture
Shifting Cultivation pg. 335
Pastoral nomadism pg. 338
Intensive subsistence: wet rice dominant pg/
Intensive subsistence: wet rice NOT dominant pg 341
Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming pg. 342
Dairy farming pg. 343
Grain farming pg. 345
Livestock ranching: cattle in the US pg
Livestock ranching: fixed location pg
Mediterranean agriculture pg. 349
Commercial gardening and fruit farming pg
Plantation Farming pg
New food sources: oceans pg 357
New food sources: cereals and rare foods pg. 358