Farming in Britain

What are processed foods made from?

What are the two principle types of farming?

What is organic farming?

What am I eating Quiz!

What am I eating?

A B C D E

Shown below are five popular foods.

Do you know what they are made from?

Farmers grow the food and rear the animals but the food on our

plates can look very different from what you might see on the

farm.

As each farm product is shown, decide which of the meals below

contain the product displayed (you can use the letters more than

once) …

A

B

C

D

E

What am I eating?

Potatoes are a root vegetable – we eat

the part that grows under the ground.

Crisps and chips are both made from

potatoes.

What am I eating?...

B E

A B C D E

What am I eating?

What am I eating?...

A C D

Tomatoes and lettuce are salad

vegetables. We eat the fruit of the

tomato and the leaves of the lettuce in

sandwiches and in burgers. Pizza

contains tomato in the topping.

What am I eating? A

B

C

D

E

What am I eating?...

Mushrooms are a

fungus – they grow

on damp soil in the

dark! Mushrooms can

be sliced and used as

a pizza topping.

D

What am I eating? A

B

C

D

E

What am I eating?...

B C

Onions are vegetables that grow

partly underground and partly on the

surface. Onions are used to flavour

crisps and slices of cooked onion may

be included in the burger.

What am I eating? A

B

C

D

E

What am I eating?...

A C D E

Sugar Beet

Sugar Cane

Sugar crystals can be made from

sugar beet (a root vegetable)

grown in the UK or from sugar

cane (a type of grass) grown in

tropical countries. Sugar is found

in almost every food we eat!

Sugar cane and Sugar crystals: Wikimedia commons images by Hans Grobe and Sanjay Achorya and licensed under the creative commons license.

What am I eating?

A B C D E

What am I eating?...

A B C D E

Dairy cattle produce milk

that can be used to make

fresh milk, powdered milk,

cream and cheese. Milk is

in most food products.

Beef cattle are used to

produce meat – burgers

are made from minced

meat from the shoulder

(chuck).

What am I eating?

A B C D E

What am I eating?...

A

Pigs are reared by farmers

for their meat – ham,

bacon and pork all come

from a pig.

What am I eating? A

B

C

D

E

What am I eating?...

E

Farmers rear chickens for both meat and

eggs. Chickens may be reared outside in

fields or in cages in battery farms.

Food and farming

• The large majority of the food we eat is made up of raw ingredients grown by farmers from the UK and across the world. There are two main types of farming - arable and pastoral.

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Two types of farming – what's the difference?

Arable (growing crops) Pastoral (rearing animals)

Arable farming is when crops are grown and pastoral farming is when animals are reared for food.

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Arable or pastoral?

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Arable or pastoral?

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Arable or pastoral?

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Arable or pastoral?

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Arable or pastoral?

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Mixed farming

• Some farmers are a mix of both arable and pastoral farms, these are called mixed farms.

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Where are the different types of farm found?

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Factors affecting location of farms in the UK

1. Climate

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2. Angle of slope on farm

Colour in the two different areas on your map on your handout

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Arable farming

• Arable farming is common in the south east where the summers are warm and the land is low, flat and fertile.

• The south east also has good transport links and farms are close to markets in towns and cities such as London.

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The Arable Farming System

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Pastoral Farming

• These farms are mainly found in …

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Pastoral Farming

• Pastoral farming is common in the south west and the west of England where the climate is warm and wet.

• There are also good transport links and good access routes to markets in these areas. The land may be flat or hilly, but not too steep.

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Can you draw your own systems diagram for pastoral farming?

Inputs Processes Outputs

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Now ….Meet Tom…Tom is an Organic Farmer

Organic farming differs in many areas from standard (non-organic) farming.

The main components of an organic farming system are:

• avoiding artificial fertilisers and pesticides

• using crop rotation to maintain soil fertility

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TASK

• Now write down two of your favourite meals.

• Write a paragraph about where they have come from and what they started out as.

• Remember to explain whether the production of each item involves pastoral or arable farming or both.

• Share your ideas with the rest of the class.

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homework

• Revise for the summer exam or …

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Or Grow Your OWN

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