i like to live off of the land.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Agriculture is the cultivation and breeding of animals, plants and fungi for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture by humans dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies; industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture farming has become the dominant agricultural method. Although generally understood to denote the practices of humans, other animals\u2014for example, fungus-growing ants\u2014have also been found to engage in agriculture. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological developments have in many cases sharply increased yields from cultivation, but at the same time have caused widespread ecological damage and negative human health effects. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry have similarly increased the output of meat, but have raised concerns about animal welfare, environmental damage (such as massive drainage of resources such as water and feed fed to the animals, global warming, rainforest destruction, leftover waste products that are littered), and the health effects of the antibiotics, growth hormones, artificial additives and other chemicals commonly used in industrial meat production.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hello,  I am seriously interested in agriculture.  Are in involved in agriculture at all?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I studied agriculture a little bit in school. The course mainly focused on biofuel and medicinial plants. Very interesting subject."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bet.  I grew up in the midwest so farming is something I have always been around. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Biofuels is a good field to get in to. Renewable biofuels involve contemporary carbon fixation, like microalgae through photosynthesis"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I believe biofuels is an up and coming industry.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "North Carolina is very active in using biofuels. Their goal for 2017 was 10% of it's liquid fuels will be produced in-state from locally grown biomass."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is a step in the right in direction for environmentally friendly fuel.  Hopefully other states can follow in their footsteps.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Biofuels Center of North Carolina is a private, nonprofit corporate facility located in Oxford, North Carolina. I'd like to visit someday"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I could imagine that place would be on the cutting edge of the industry.  I am sure that there is a lot one could learn by going there"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, they are helping  to reduce the state's dependence on imported liquid fuel so they are doing a very important job there."}]