1. Oil Seed Crops

2. Oil Seed Crops 5 Major  Soybeans  Peanuts  Safflower  Flax  Sunflower

3. Soybeans  Grown in the Corn Belt  Internationally grown in Brazil  Oil and grains are the major uses  Oil Many Products  Grain. Important PROTEIN source for animal feed.

4. Peanuts  Peanut is a legume (in the pea family, not a nut.)  Grown in the South (needs warm temp.)  George Washington Carver found 300 uses for peanuts.

5. Safflower

6. Flax  Flax fiber from the stems of plants are used to make linen.  The oil from flax is called LINSEED Oil  Oil is important in paints and hundreds of uses.

7. Sunflowers  Sunflower Meal: livestock feed.  Sunflower Oil  Margarine and cooking oil  Diesel fuel in tractors

8. Specialty Crops Cotton Sugar beets Sugar Cane Tobacco

9. Cotton  Important southern crop (needs warm temperatures)  We export millions of bales to other countries  “Ginning” is the process of removing the seed, which contains the oil  The seed is then ground up for livestock feed.

10. Sugar Beets  35% of refined sugar in U.S. comes from sugar beets

11. Sugar Cane  65% of refined sugar  Grown in subtropical climates, Hawaii, Florida, Gulf States

12. Tobacco  Originally Native American religious rites  Produced in the southeast  Has declined in the U.S. because of known health hazards, but has increased worldwide.