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- 4. Farmers now can feed ________ people on average than 50 years ago.
- 8. If a crop field is able to regrow after a shock (like floods, fires, and droughts) it is ________.
- 9. __________ products are grown on soil that has had no prohibited substances applied for three years prior to harvest or raised in living conditions to accommodate their natural behaviors.
- 10. Farmers continue to work for large companies because the farmers have _________ caused from years of accumulation by trying to keep up with renovations.
- 11. This type of agriculture requires large amounts of water, chemicals, and
- 13. Agriculture that protects the environment, public health, communities, and animal welfare is called
- 14. A large portion of our food has been _________ in a lab to extend shelf life, increase growth rate, or be used in new ways.
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- 1. When agricultural scientists in the mid to later 1900s introduced new technology, farming practices, and crop varieties, it was called the
- 2. A field containing only one crop to make harvesting more efficient is called __________
- 3. Common crops like corn, wheat, and soybeans are _________, meaning that the government uses tax dollars to pay farmers to grow them.
- 5. When a crop, like corn, is overproduced the price often ________
- 6. fuels.
- 7. Diversity, resilience, self-sufficiency, and efficiency are the four qualities of __________
- 12. Most of our processed food contains which major commodity crop in the US?