Across
- 3. a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 4. the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community
- 7. expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
- 9. the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
- 10. a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 11. commercial gardening and fruit farming
- 12. use of little labor and capital to increase agriculture productivity
- 13. a factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
- 14. in america commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives;planting and harvesting is done by hired migratory crews
Down
- 1. the cultivation of rice on a paddy, or small flooded field enclosed by mud dikes, practiced in the humid areas of the Far East
- 2. the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
- 5. highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 6. dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
- 8. characteristics of farmers or their way of life
- 15. the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources