### transaction | commerce | agriculture:

American agriculture
* has a constantly growing appetite for credit
  - proud history of individualism
* is based almost entirely upon introduced species
  - on vertical integration to achieve low costs
  - more than twice as reliant on foreign trade as the U.S. economy as a whole
* major force in the global economy.
* world of opportunity.

### transaction | commerce | agriculture:

Animal agriculture
* chief contributor to water pollution.
* does suck resources.
* is also a major cause of global warming
  - responsible for a variety of environmental health problems
  - an important part of the economy of Oregon and the nation
  - deeply interwoven with plants in the food production system
  - exempt from the Animal Welfare Act and most state anti-cruelty laws
  - intensive in many areas resulting in erosion and over grazing
  - vitally important to human health
* living business.
* primary source of water pollution as well.
* uses precious resources in other ways as well.
* very important part of North Dakota s agricultural economy.
* wastes our food resources.

Commercial agriculture
* causes damage
  - permanent damage
* for profit business.
* is one of the most highly regulated businesses in the United States.
* major contributor to the country's economy.

Contemporary culture
* IS agriculture.
* boasts avent-garde painters and musicians.
* includes a widespread pattern of lighthearted hedonistic recreational sex.
* is how oppressive ideologies are reproduced and disseminated.
* regards public activity as more important than domestic life.

Diversified agriculture
* growing sector of the economy.
* is described as increasing the number of types of agricultural production.

Ecological agriculture
* is one of the trends in agricultural restructurisation.
* protects ecosystems.

Indian agriculture
* is heavily dependent on the monsoon as a source of water.
* produce even in the domestic market.

Industrialized agriculture
* promotes uniformity in food crops all over the planet.
* puts animals in concentration camps where they become crazy and diseased.

### transaction | commerce | agriculture:

Irrigated agriculture
* is already the largest consumer of developed water resources
  - also in competition with urban water use
* is by far the largest consumptive user of water in New Zealand
  - user of water in the Southwest
  - committed to protecting wildlife while maintaining farming operations
  - practised only in selected areas and on a relatively small scale
  - responsible for most consumptive water use, and decreases surface run-off
* is the backbone of the economy
  - larges user of water in the western United States
* is the major consumer of water in Texas
  - widespread in Colorado and irrigation systems can be sources of mosquitoes
* requires diversion of water, which reduces streamflows
  - significant volumes of water

Korean agriculture
* is characterized by small subsistence farms.
* lags behind the general economy because of high costs.

Mechanized agriculture
* produces greater crop yields.
* requires more fossil energy
  - the use of more fertilizers and pesticides

### transaction | commerce | agriculture:

Modern agriculture
* involves the large-scale production of a single type of plant.
* is heavily dependent on non-renewable energy sources, especially petroleum
  - one of the most international of enterprises
  - the use of land to convert petroleum into food
* uses a narrow range of varieties
  - variety of chemicals, pesticides and fertilizer to grow crops
  - vast array of poisons
  - wide variety of biocides to combat crop pests, weeds and diseases
* water hog, the largest user and waster of global freshwater supplies.