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Lecturing: Instruct

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Farming Today and Tomorrow Intro

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View pigs being born! This movie is 7.2 MB and may take a few moments to download, and it's worth the wait.). We're Feeding the World. Read the story We're Feeding the World. It tells the wonderful story of ordinary people whose accomplishments were extraordinary. Connecting Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Henry Wallace and Norman Borlaug. As important Iowans, Henry Wallace. Were leaders who not only made a difference for Iowans but for the world as well. They helped to develop agricultural practices ...

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Farming Today and Tomorrow - Exports and Value-Added Agriculture

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A Day in the Life. Exports and Value-Added Agriculture. Farmers live in a changing economy and face many situations in which they have no control - prices, weather and disease. This requires many decisions: what crops to grow, which seeds to buy, how to grow them and get the best yield per acre, how to get crops to market, as well as how to find new uses for corn and soybeans. The US. exports. Corn to over 100 countries. Iowa is a major contributor to the corn market. What is value-added agriculture?

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Pioneer Farming Intro

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In the United States, agriculture has always been important. The term agriculture comes from the Greek word agros meaning "the soil" or "a field." Agriculture begins with the land, and in Iowa the land is very fertile. The land itself, like the people who live on it, has a history. Iowa's fertile soil developed over thousands and thousands of years. As the prairie grasses grew and died, their roots decayed making rich black dirt. Introduction to Pioneer Farming Continued.

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Exploring Prairies Intro

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Try to envision what Iowa must have been like more than 150 years ago. It's early morning, a low-hanging veil of fog drifts silently over the top of a sea of grasses. The early morning sunrise casts its warm glow on colorful, fragrant flowers as far as the eye and mind can envision. Bobolinks and meadowlarks greet the early morning glow with their wondrous songs. It's a new day in Iowa .". Prairies vary in the types of vegetation they support. These variations are largely due to soil types and the mo...

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Pioneer Farming - Life in a Log Home

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Life in a Log Home. Part II: Building a Log Cabin. Part III: The Crowded Cabin. Part IV: Preparing Meals. Part V: Keeping House. What was it like to live in a log cabin? Now, we can let our family move into their furnished home. What time is it? Or perhaps the sun is not shining. It has been drizzling and raining off and on for nearly a week. (You know how Iowa weather is, sometimes.) Everything is wet, or at least damp, including clothing and boots and bedding and firewood-and the babies. Developed by I...

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The Story of Corn Intro

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When Columbus "discovered" America, there was no corn on board the Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria. Before 1492, no one living in Europe ate corn cakes, corn bread or corn pudding. They didn't know corn existed. Up to this time, corn grew only in the Americas. Scientists. Believe corn was originally cultivated by Indians in the highlands of Mexico thousands of years ago. The Indians discovered that corn was good to eat and very nutritious. Of corn that matured early. American farmers have always wanted to gro...

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Mystery Photo

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Who Was Albert Lea? How did early pioneers use this plant when traveling across the prairie? Used with permission from Kirk Henderson, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management. After examining this photograph, write your response in an email message to your teacher or exchange ideas with a friend. Who Was Albert Lea? Developed by Interactive Internet-Delivered Training L.L.C.

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The Story of Corn - Scavenger Hunt

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Products made from corn are all around us. The glue used in your classroom, the chewing gum you aren't supposed to have in your classroom, and even the paper you write on are all made from corn. Here's how it all starts. After corn is harvested, it's taken to the processing plant where it is soaked and ground, spun and separated into starch, protein, hulls, and gluten. These raw products are then sold to other industries that make everything from antibiotics to paint. When you have completed your researc...