A Personal Experience with Urban Sprawl

With close observation, they soon learned the characteristic of plants, and started selective domesticating the plant that were beneficial to them and the climate of that region. “They removed unwanted plants through weeding and selected the seed they planted in order to get crops that had favorable characteristic…certain crops became domesticated, that is, modified by selective breeding so as to serve human needs” (page 7. History of western society). Since, farming required long working hours and more labor, early farmer who relied on agriculture were less nourished then foragers. Although, less yield had resulted more health complication on early farmers, but also more people start farming.

Inventing the seed plow was a huge breakthrough in those times. The creation made it easier for farmers to plow and produce more crops at a faster rate. Without the first invention of the seed plow, farmers throughout the years would find it harder to make a living and supply crops to suppliers. Animals play a big role in the agricultural process. Animals were used to pull the ploughs through the fields dropping the seeds and tilling the land for easier planting.

At the time and after the war, mass-producing food appeared to be a great idea. During the war, mass-producing allowed people to save time and money on the food they both ate and sent to the solders. A few generations later, small and local farms were shut down because the farmers could not afford the top machinery and chemicals that were now required across the country. These chemicals protected the plants from bugs and parasites, but they also removed some of the nutrients from the food. When genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) were introduced, the farmers who could not afford to keep producing “whole”, not-modified foods were forced to change their farms into monoculture farming.

Without fencing to keep cattle in, the bovines grazed freely competing for grass and water and destroying crops like wheat, oats, barley, and rye. The invention of barbed wire changed the way the west was constructed. Barbed wire limited the open range and started many fights over land, it also limited the freedom of ranches and cowboys. Barbed wire singular purpose was to keep in and to keep out it was first put to use on the Great Plains of American West in the late 19th century to restrict cattle and, implicitly, to secure territory by expansionist settlers and demarcate possessions. Barbed wire had a major impact on settlers and native americans living in the west.

Jones and his men came out to fight them off, but the animals were to strong for them. The animals drove them out of the farm and declared what used to be called “The Manor Farm” into what they called “Animal Farm.” Snowball took over as their new leader and served them good especially when Jones came back with some men and guns and tried to take back his farm and Snowball took control and stopped Jones from winning the fight. Then Snowball gets an idea that they should build a windmill that symbolizes their farm and could be used for hay storage. Napoleon, another pig who wanted to take rule, said that was a stupid idea and Napoleon went on to plant fake evidence that Snowball

During the 1700s, farming changed greatly. The changes were for the better. It made farmers work a lot easier and allowed them to have more crops. Before the revolution farmers lives were hard and stressful. Then the agricultural revolution brought changes to crop rotation, the new inventions and the amount of land one farmer could farm in one year with little help.

They just want to make the most money possible. Family farms on the other hand actually help out a wide variety of people. Not only do the family farms help grow food for the family in charge, but they also grow food for the local markets allowing them to get healthy... ... middle of paper ... ... a “natural pesticide” against, in this situation wheat, the crop-killing bug. This is the advantage that family farms have. Family farms are slowly fading away from the American landscape due to the increasing number of industrialized farms.

Agriculture Technology People have depended on agriculture for years as the primary source of getting food. We have developed all kinds of ways to manipulate nature so what we can produce higher yield crops, more nutritious crops, bigger crops, crops that withstand cold, and farming equipment that allows us to manufacture these crops with relative ease. Why then are there five billion people being malnourished and forty thousand children dying each day from hunger? It seems as though world hunger is more a result of the lack of distributing the food properly than the lack of quantity. agriculture has turned into a high profit business and biotech companies like Monsanto are constantly trying to come up with better and more efficient ways of farming.

GPS system can help improve field records and give you more precise farming and will pay for themselves in the end. Last but not least always look for new advanced technology and don’t be afraid of it. Technology is always changing and every day there are new advances in this field that can help farmers produce more with fewer chemicals so that in the end fewer chemicals will reach the dinner table.

Because there are no longer pests eating the crop, more produce can be sent to market. According to the GMO compass, produce like corn has been genetically modified to be able to grow in colder areas. This allows more people to have access to food. This dif... ... middle of paper ... ...netically modified produce has the capability to feed the world. Because the GMOs would help the future population of the world to survive, I think it is essential that we take into account the effects of them before we cause damage to the populations instead.