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9 Agriculture: A System, a Science, or a Commodity
9 Agriculture: A System, a Science, or a Commodity
Pages 75-85
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Chabot Although past agricultural policy focused on production and farm commodities, it is clear that future agricultural policy will be driven by environmental issues, rural development, food safety, energy, information technologies, and global competition. This chapter has two basic objectives.
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Practical agricultural training was initially handled by successful local farmers interested in the future of the new college a reversal of todays extension process. Todays agriculture faculty at Cornell University comprises more than 450 people (including many from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Veteri 76
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In order to gain some perspective as to how others view the role of colleges of agriculture, we did a quick survey of deans and directors of Cornellts College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, asklng them what they regarded as the mission of the college. Here are the replies: o to conduct programs in research, extension, and instruction to meet the needs of the people of New York State as a land-grant college; · to generate knowledge and transmit that knowledge to clients in the state, nation, and world and to produce young men and women for leadership positions; · research and education; · to educate students, to create new knowledge, and to dissemi nate knowledge to various publics; · to be the number one land-grant college; and · to support (sustain)
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A program in communications for extension professionals can produce courses in scientific writing, speaking, video production, and more. Basic biological sciences faculty in production agriculture departments can contribute to a general biology curriculum for the university as a whole.
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At a place like Cornell, with its Ivy League Image, it is hard to imagine that peer pressure and the structure of the curriculum are really conducive to farm youth who wish to remain in farming. The most successful farmers in the future are likely to be skilled businessmen with advanced educations and technical knowledge that colleges of agrlculture are in the best position to provide.
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Challenges for Graduates of Colleges of Agriculture The food and agricultural problems of today and through the 1990S require integrated multidisciplinary efforts. There is an everincreasing need to develop comprehensive systems that integrate financial and marketing options, production technologies, and resource management practices that maintain a clean environment and that are socially responsible.
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Polls of a few years ago suggested that when consumers were confronted with a choice between fruits and vegetables with blemishes but that were grown without the use of pesticides and unblemished foods produced with pesticides, they would choose the blemished products over the better-appearing foods. More recent polls indicate that the choice of foods grown without pesticides has eroded and that, because of price differences, consumers are not purchasing organically grown products like they did earlier.
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Control The issue of control or regulation of agricultural practices is an ever-increasing and potentially contentious issue. Who will control the agricultural practices, and at what level is it necessary for control measures to be triggered?
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Farm Equipment Biochemistry Food Processing Financiallnsbtutions Ecology Forestry Food Companies and Equipment Genetics Human Resources Government Microbiology New Products Greenhouses and Nurseries Physiology Non-Food Products Marine Pest Management Ornamentals (turn Engineering Sclences Plant Production Pharmaceuticals Computing Plant Systems Production Agriculture Electronics Safety (farming) Transport Pro ses are Matenals Waste Management Soil Management Thermodynamics Space Social Sciences Technology Transter Communication (extension)
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· The application of scientific knowledge to the food and agricultural system is the focus of colleges of agriculture as it is typically played out through their respective departments. · Markets represent areas of technology development where graduates apply their professional expertise.
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NABC Report 2. Ithaca, N.Y.: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Cornell University.
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