Corn & Iowa Agriculture

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Across
  1. 3. The practice of farming: cultivating the soil, growing strong crops, and raising animals for food, wool, etc.
  2. 4. Prepare and use land for crops or gardening. Some resources a farmer might use are fertilizers and tillage tools.
  3. 6. Careful and safe upkeep of a natural resource to ensure we do not run out.
  4. 7. The process of replacing old farm tools and horses with new, more efficient tools and tractors.
Down
  1. 1. Gathering ripe crops from a field. The process is usually: gathering, cleaning, packing, storing, and delivering.
  2. 2. Turning over and breaking up soil while mixing in different compost, nutrients, etc., to prepare for planting.
  3. 5. times The time before the industrial boom, people farmed with simpler tools and horses.
  4. 6. The amount of corn harvested from a field. It is measured using bushels/acre. (Bushel is about 56 pounds).