Commercial Agriculture Regions and Fishing

1. Chapter 10 section 7 and 8 Commercial Agriculture Regions and Fishing

2. Terms/Concepts • Mixed Crop and Livestock • Dairy Farming • Milkshed • Grain Farming • Livestock Ranching • Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming • Truck Farming • Mediterranean Agriculture • Aquaculture (aquafarming) • Overfishing

3. Commercial Agriculture • Six Types: • Mixed Crop and Livestock • Dairy Farming • Grain Farming • Livestock Ranching • Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming • Mediterranean Agriculture • The type of agricultural farming is largely influenced by climate

4. Mixed Crop and Livestock • The integration of crops and livestock • Maize (corn) most common • Most crops are fed to animals rather than consumed by humans • Most land is devoted to growing crops but ¾ of money made from sale of animal products • Typically involve crop rotation- the practice of rotating different crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

5. Diary Farming • Most important agriculture practiced near large urban areas • Must be closer to market because food spoils easier • Milkshed- the ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling

6. Grain Farming • Located in areas too dry for mixed crop or livestock farming (great plains) • Grown for consumption by humans primarily • Wheat is most important- low risk of spoilage

7. Livestock Ranching • Ranching- the commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area • Practiced on semiarid or arid land where land cannot support crops • Today part of the meat-processing industry

8. Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming • Predominate in the U.S. Southeast- due to long growing season and humid climate • Called truck farming

9. Mediterranean Agriculture • Primarily located on land that border the Mediterranean Sea and other places with similar climate • California, central Chile, and Southwestern part of South Africa, and Southwestern Australia • Most important crops are olives and grapes

10. Fishing • Aquaculture (aquafarming)- the cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions • Overfishing- capturing of fish faster than they can reproduce

11. Terms/Concepts • Mixed Crop and Livestock • Dairy Farming • Milkshed • Grain Farming • Livestock Ranching • Commercial Gardening and Fruit Farming • Truck Farming • Mediterranean Agriculture • Aquaculture (aquafarming) • Overfishing