Agriculture-Amber Hall

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Across
  1. 3. Expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
  2. 4. In American commercial grain agriculture, a farm on on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
  3. 5. Means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use
  4. 6. The killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
  5. 8. Term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factor-type labor forces, and the latest technology
  6. 12. Use of little labor and capital to increase agriculture productivity
  7. 13. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the world was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
  8. 14. Deliberately planted and tended by humans that is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding
Down
  1. 1. The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
  2. 2. A factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
  3. 3. Farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive
  4. 7. A second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
  5. 9. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
  6. 10. A commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
  7. 11. Characteristic of farmers or their way of life