Food Review

4. Farmers now can feed ________ people on average than 50 years ago.
8. If a crop field is able to regrow after a shock (like floods, fires, and droughts) it is ________.
9. __________ products are grown on soil that has had no prohibited substances applied for three years prior to harvest or raised in living conditions to accommodate their natural behaviors.
10. Farmers continue to work for large companies because the farmers have _________ caused from years of accumulation by trying to keep up with renovations.
11. This type of agriculture requires large amounts of water, chemicals, and
13. Agriculture that protects the environment, public health, communities, and animal welfare is called
14. A large portion of our food has been _________ in a lab to extend shelf life, increase growth rate, or be used in new ways.

1. When agricultural scientists in the mid to later 1900s introduced new technology, farming practices, and crop varieties, it was called the
2. A field containing only one crop to make harvesting more efficient is called __________
3. Common crops like corn, wheat, and soybeans are _________, meaning that the government uses tax dollars to pay farmers to grow them.
5. When a crop, like corn, is overproduced the price often ________
6. fuels.
7. Diversity, resilience, self-sufficiency, and efficiency are the four qualities of __________
12. Most of our processed food contains which major commodity crop in the US?