Agronomic Crops

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  1. 2. Used as a food, fiber, and oil crop.
  2. 10. Crops used to make livestock roughages
  3. 13. Scientific name of tobacco.
  4. 15. Scientific name of potato.
  5. 17. crops grown for the production of their seeds.
  6. 22. Can be a perennial cover crop, NE ranks 6th.
  7. 23. Scientific name of peanut.
  8. 24. Most widely grown oilseed in the world.
  9. 25. Nebraska tanks 12th in production.
  10. 27. Crops processed into food for humans and animals.
  11. 31. Crops grown for human consumption.
  12. 33. NE ranks 1st in production
  13. 35. Produced in areas of drought, NE. ranks 6th.
  14. 37. Scientific name of alfalfa.
  15. 38. Has double the iron of other grain crops.
  16. 39. NE. ranks third in production, 10-20% is exported
  17. 40. Over 10,000 varieties
  18. 44. Scientific name of flax.
  19. 45. Scientific name of canola.
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  1. 1. Scientific name of millet.
  2. 3. Scientific name of sudangrass.
  3. 4. Member of the sorghum family.
  4. 5. Scientific name is Helianthus.
  5. 6. Grown in the south, has a 160 maturity period
  6. 7. Scientific name of cotton.
  7. 8. Matures 4 weeks after flowering
  8. 9. Scientific name of wheat.
  9. 11. 34% of supply comes from NE. Rank #1.
  10. 12. Scientific name of corn.
  11. 14. Scientific name of sugar beets.
  12. 16. Milled into flour
  13. 18. Oilseed that produces small yellow flowers.
  14. 19. Scientific name of Dry Beans.
  15. 20. Crops used in the textile industry
  16. 21. Scientific name of safflower.
  17. 26. 90% of these grown in NE are in the panhandle.
  18. 28. Scientific name of sorghum.
  19. 29. Grown to change the activity of the consumer.
  20. 30. Scientific name of oats.
  21. 32. Percent of farmers who grow food and fiber.
  22. 34. The US is the 4th largest producer.
  23. 36. Grown by transplanting the seedling in spring.
  24. 41. Scientific name of tomato.
  25. 42. Scientific name of soybean.
  26. 43. 1/3 of production in NE is for chips.