Farming/Animal Science

2. The difference between the cash market price and the futures market price of a commodity
3. A male goat. Also referred to as “billy.”
5. Refers to a meat-type animal of suffcient age and weight to be put into a feedlot for fnishing prior to slaughter.
6. A method of marketing livestock and/or produce through which an auctioneer sells to the highest bidder.
8. U.S. standard unit of measurement for agricultural land. It is equivalent to 43,560 square feet.
9. An animal feeding operation used to intensively feed and grow cattle for fnishing.
10. A mature female sheep.
11. Family of animals that includes beef and dairy cattle.
13. Any of several grains most commonly used for livestock or poultry feed, such as corn.
15. A female horse or pony up to 4 years of age that has not foaled.
16. An adult female chicken or turkey.
17. A castrated male horse.
19. The mother or female parent of an animal.
20. A mature bovine usually having had at least one calf.
21. To give birth to a litter of pigs.

1. A young goat.
2. Male pig castrated before sexual maturity.
4. A young rooster not more than a year old.
5. Of a horse (equine), up to 1 year old.
7. A male horse or pony 4 years of age or younger that has not been castrated.
9. When milk production begins in a cow after a calf is born.
11. Intact (not castrated) male pig.
12. Of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family.
14. A young female swine that has not given birth.
18. A young sheep.
19. A dairy cow that goes out of the milk production herd during the last 45-90 days of pregnancy. The dry period is an important resting period for the dairy cow, where fresh udder tissue is formed in readiness for lactation, and it provides an important opportunity to rid the udder of many potential pathogens that can cause mastitis.