Identify the benefits of advocating for the agricultural industry.

Identification should include

• the issues common to agricultural lobbying, such as
  • environmental
  • agricultural technology
  • animal
  • agricultural careers
  • economy and trade
  • agricultural policy
  • food safety
  • biotechnology
• the effects of these issues on the agriculture industry.

Teacher Resource:

Focusing on Agriculture Issues Instructional Units (https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~peters/HTML/issues/issues.html Links to an external site.)

Process/Skill Questions:

• Who advocates for the agricultural industry?
• Who lobbies against the agricultural industry? What tactics do they use?