ABSTRACT
Agricultural geography is the study of agricultural activities in a spatial context, that is, the location of agriculture as a whole and of the constituent activities of cropping and livestock rearing, and the distribution of the outputs and of the farms, fields, labour, machinery and all other inputs required for production. When man follows fire by scattering seeds of desired species in the ashes, he is an agriculturalist, even if he does not so much as turn the soil with a digging stick. The relief controls operate partly through the climate they create, high altitudes being in some respects similar to high latitudes, and partly through angle of slope and irregularity of surface. The cost to a farmer of spraying his wheat to kill a particular insect may be the improvement of housing to protect valuable livestock in winter — the cost of not spraying may be the loss of the wheat.
