Chase Linto
English 12
Mrs. Borowski

Agriculture has helped lives of many throughout the time it was started. Agriculture is the production of crops, livestock, and or poultry. Without agriculture, or farming, then the world would have major setbacks from what it is today. Alabama Agriculture is mostly known for making cotton, livestock such as sheep and cows, and poultry, or dairy products. Farmers have been more help to civilization than most people think. Cotton is used to make clothes with its soft structure. Cotton is a fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or a seed-bearing capsule, and it has been around since at least 5000 BC. It was mostly likely to be originated in Mexico and modern day Pakistan. Now it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing. Cotton has been and always will be an important natural crop that has been around since the beginning of agriculture and it will never be beaten by another natural fiber. In Alabama, cotton was, and still is, the driving economic force in the creation of Alabama Livestock is another very important part of life. Livestock in agriculture is basically animals that are bred and raised for multiple things, such as food, fiber, and labor. Livestock is a huge resource for food, such as chicken with eggs and it has been huge change since livestock. Before livestock started in 15,000 BC from Asia domesticating dogs, people had to hunt for their food. The problem with this is that the most active time for hunting was the winter, the prey would eventually die out quick fast, and the hunters and their families or tribes, would have to move to another location with more prey to kill and eat. Tribes with hunters in them would have to stay on the move throughout their time into harsh environments to find food to consume and to survive, making life more difficult than what it already was. Livestock mostly started with pigs in 7000 BC and horses around 4000 BC. The term "livestock" is nebulous and may be defined narrowly or broadly. On a broader view, livestock refers to any breed or population of animal kept by humans for a useful, commercial purpose. This can mean domestic animals, semi-domestic animals, or captive wild animals. Semi-domesticated refers to animals which are only lightly domesticated or of disputed status. These populations may also be in the process of domestication. Some people may use the term livestock to refer to only domestic animals or even to only red meat animals. Today in Alabama, livestock is a huge part of the state for there are still plenty of farmers there to keep the profit of livestock going. Poultry is another huge part for agriculture. Poultry is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of collecting of their eggs, or killing for their meat or feathers. The meatiest parts of a bird are the flight muscles on its chest, called breast meat, and the walking muscles on the first and second segments of its legs, called the thigh and drumstick, respectively. The wings are also eaten, usually (in the United States) without separating them, as in Buffalo wings. Agriculture has really help all of civilization to have easier lives and revolutionizing it with what it has and will accomplish. In my state, it has helped a quarter of the population find work and has helped people live rich and successful lives. Who knows where we would be without agriculture.