Ag - Tyesn Jones
Across
- 4. The art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources.
- 5. Characteristic of farmers or their way of life
- 8. Expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 9. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
- 10. A factory like farm devoted to either livestock flattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
- 11. Use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
- 13. Highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 14. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the word was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
- 15. A second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
Down
- 1. Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
- 2. The cultural landscape of agricultural areas
- 3. The killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 6. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
- 7. In American commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
- 12. A commercial type of agriculture that produces flattened cattle and hogs for meat