all of america and my the waters from the snow and rain the land itself land of pl i am a way of life the american way i am agriculture u i was fashioned by men who brought forth a new nation in the beginning according to the first book of moses i was born on the third day of creation when god ordered the earth to put forth green living things for wondrous things made  then came a new day i remember my country's first farms and my farm i remember my first steel plow pulled by a team i remember my first grain cutter built by the young son of a farm inventor got six regular grain in less than half a day as much as six men could do a hand like most of my labor saving devices this one depended on a horse for pure or as power and it has served us for almost three centur i remember the establishment of the united states department of agriculture an eight hundred sixty two to acquire and diffuse among the people useful information on subjects connected with agriculture the act was signed by a great man of the people my agricultural industry more and more efficient along with national growth the ancient law of supply and demand took effect more land had to be farmed crowded me out i remember when this was a potato this where a farmer raised in the early days when he barely fed one now the farmers himself an important consumer for the goods and services which he requires to produce crops and livestock he spends more than twenty five billion dollars a year he spends another fifteen billion dollars for the same things that city people but global product the story of my progress is the romance of our country seconds keeping our appointment with destiny we have moved forward and now love the grass my new horizon measure my new patterns of progress measure them by the mile measure me by the size of my market yesterday my grain elevators supply our allies the day i help feed the free world as many other countries struggle with problems of scarcity the strength of the united states lies in my abundance am the world's largest exporter of agricultural products one acre out of my every six feeds our foreign friends relieve hunger and promotes economic growth in the new nation i am every grain every inspected grain of america's bounty found for oversea here at home and in foreign lands i demonstrate my know how to farmers from other countries in this time of scientific revolution let it never be said that we were able to send men into space but are unable or send bread and milk to hungry people on this  me by the american farm families who come to my fairs around me by the endless research in government and industry that improves my plants my animals my methods and machines me by the products of agribusiness which can be bought well supervised credit based on sound farm management plan around me by the millions of farm families the backbone of america as my bears everyone has a good  often for the first time i go over big in new delhi and dr cairo in london sydney  these old world i knew markets and a challenge to the productivity of my free enterprise system i am from the skies my conservationists map my land to capture permanent pictures of my changing terrain i have the power to farm from the skies covering acres in a matter of minutes i'm a daredevil battles the bugs and the blight the weeds and viruses from over the mountains man brought water to the desert i am modern farming the rolling factory that increases farm additions in one single pass and this giant dixon packs enough vegetables to feed a city of some size and my technological revolution is just beginning i am also the people the people of agriculture many on my face there's no other business has bite so many i am the lab technician the nutrition i fight for life i am the documentar i'm all the people who disseminate new knowledge in every one of my state i am the soil conservation i'm all the hardworking people in my great backing sherrod's my hands serve farmers and customers twenty million busy hands handle my product the vegetable chauffeur i packed the reefers with ice i'm the industrial scientist many are my faces because four out of every ten jobs in business in industry are related to agriculture i have become the greatest provider in all history for young people am the spirit of progress take the story of my story be within your very lifetime the processing of soybeans has grown into a great american industry my rivers that once made blood have been tamed and put to better use now are the most of my land stretched the sinews of electricity electricity that gives my fans power and li electricity that runs my industry that's why four out of five american bombers british an elite independent work together to make sure my land ever flows with agricultural abu mark my importance by the size and variety of my markets watch my trucks rolled from processor to markets to consumer and back again i'm i for i am for you and here and my show places i provide five thousand different products to satisfy your every taste i give you strength and he each day i am part of you and i taken for granted because i'm always at your fingertips stop and think what would life be like without me since the beginning of this nation of ours has come a long way but the demands upon our agriculture keep increasing by the next century imagine what they will be there will be many more people to feed clothe and shelter more and more industry does apply i am agriculture usa born in freedom god willing i shall continue to grow in freedom and under both film and of time itself i shall serve forever the free people of my great l