Farms are important to the world.  We get nearly all of the food we eat from them.  When our country began, most people were farmers.  As they learned more about agriculture, farmers began to use science to make their crops grow faster and grow more.  Farm animals were grown so that they made more milk or gave more meat.  Old machinery became new, time and energy-saving machines.
    Today’s farmer knows a lot more about farming than our ancestors did.  Farmers need to know about the land, crops, animals, selling the products, managing money, and borrowing money when they need it.
    There are two groups of farms:  specialized and mixed farms.  Specialized farms raise crops or animals that grow well in their area.  Farmers would not waste their time and money planting a crop if the climate would not let it grow well.  Some examples of crops on a specialized farm are:

    Specialized livestock farms include about half of all farms in the United States .  Some examples of animals on livestock farms are:

    Some farms are mixed farms because they produce two or more products.  The dairy farm we visited produced milk, calves to sell, plus corn, hay, and soybeans that they used to feed the animals. 

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