Agriculture Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  2. 10. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds
  3. 13. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
  4. 15. Seed of a cereal grass
  5. 20. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
  6. 25. Farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  7. 26. The outer covering of a seed
  8. 27. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  9. 29. Commercial agriculture associated with large corporations
  10. 32. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals
  11. 33. A large farm in that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale
  12. 34. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away nu the wind
  13. 35. Commercial gardening and fruit farming
  14. 36. A machine that reaps,threshes,and cleans grain while moving over a field
  15. 37. A grass yielding grain for food
Down
  1. 1. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
  2. 2. To beat our grain from stalks by trampling it
  3. 4. planting crops on ridge tops
  4. 5. Agriculture that generates products for sale off the farm
  5. 6. A form of subsistence agricultre in which people shift activity from one field to another
  6. 7. The modification of Earth's surface by cultivating crops and raising crops
  7. 8. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  8. 9. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  9. 11. Commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over and extensive area
  10. 12. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during particular season
  11. 14. Malay word for wet rice
  12. 16. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing
  13. 17. Degradation of land primarily because of human actions
  14. 18. Rice planted on dryland in nursery and then mosved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
  15. 19. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
  16. 21. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  17. 22. Subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  18. 23. The most productive farmland
  19. 24. Fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
  20. 28. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
  21. 30. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
  22. 31. a flooded field for growing rice