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Report 2, Team 16
Texas State offers many classes in the Agriculture Department that pertain to plant and soil science. ... Also, County Agriculture Extension Agents help merchandized products by holding shows around the county. ... OFRF also said that over the past decade, sales of organic products have shown an annual increase of at least 20%, the fastest growing sector of agriculture. ...
The International Federation of Organic Movements, IFOAM, stated that “organic agriculture and organic markets in industrialized countries are growing by 25 percent annually. ...
Organic agriculture has the potential to reduce environmental degradation and support biodiversity while in the same time provide safe food in sufficient quantities and good qualities resulting in both economical and ecological sustainability. ... In Texas, the Texas Department of Agriculture, TDA, inspects and regulates everything form gas pumps (weights and measurements department) to grading of eggs (egg quality program) and everything in between. On the national level, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulates production of plants and plant products and also oversees their grading. ... These courses include: agribusiness management, range management, agriculture finance, agricultural policy, agricultural resource economics, farm management, agricultural marketing and sales, quantitative methods in agricultural economics, and introduction to agricultural economics. ... ( Mission Statement from the Nation Agricultural Statistics Service) This basically means to really understand the status of agriculture in the US and in Texas proper statistics must be kept so the industry is informed about possible future trends or shortages that may occur. ...
The USDA and TDA are both agencies in place to promote agriculture on many levels from their inputs to the markets. ...
Upon looking at the USDA website under employment opportunities there were careers in many fields of the agency including: agriculture marketing service, agriculture research service, plant and animal inspection service, departmental administration, economic research service, farm service agency, food safety and inspection service, foreign agricultural service , forest service, nation agricultural statistics service, and rural services are a few of the career possibilities available at the national level of employment. ... A few journals that I found containing agribusiness articles are Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, American journal of agricultural economic, Journal of farm economics,and Agricultural Index.
Approximate Word count = 1701
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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