Across
- 3. Expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 4. In American commercial grain agriculture, a farm on on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
- 5. Means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use
- 6. The killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 8. Term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factor-type labor forces, and the latest technology
- 12. Use of little labor and capital to increase agriculture productivity
- 13. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the world was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
- 14. Deliberately planted and tended by humans that is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding
Down
- 1. The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
- 2. A factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
- 3. Farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive
- 7. A second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 9. The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
- 10. A commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 11. Characteristic of farmers or their way of life