Across
- 7. in american commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
- 8. highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 10. the cultural landscape of agricultural areas
- 14. a factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
Down
- 1. dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
- 2. characteristic of farmers or their way of life
- 3. the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
- 4. use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity
- 5. a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 6. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 9. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 10. the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
- 11. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
- 12. a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 13. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
