Agriculture terms to know
Across
- 2. characteristic of farmers or their way of life
- 5. a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 10. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 11. the cultural landscape of agricultural areas
- 13. farm commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the word was a middle english word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
- 17. a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 18. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 20. term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the lastest technology
Down
- 1. the practice of rotating use different fields from crop to crop each year
- 3. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
- 4. regards a system of agricultural organization whereas farm laborers are not compensated via wages
- 6. changes made to the environment, the use of pesticides to grow crops and the effects it has on the soil and environment
- 7. in american commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives, planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
- 8. means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or process for specific use
- 9. the recent introduction of high-yield hybrid crops and chemical fertilizers and pesticides into traditional Asian agricultural systems, most notably paddy rice farming
- 12. the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as shellfish or fish) especially for food
- 14. the killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 15. a factory like a farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying, all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
- 16. use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
- 19. the feeding relationships between a species in biotic community
- 21. highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership