Across
- 4. long-term weather patterns in an area
- 5. the alteration or modification, for the purpose of storage, transport, or sale, of an agricultural product produced on a farm site through the addition of other ingredients or components, provided that the initial agricultural product must be the principal ingredient or component
- 7. a living thing that is so small it must be viewed with a microscope
- 9. a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work
- 12. Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating
- 14. fit to be eaten
- 15. a merchant middleman who sells chiefly to retailers, other merchants, or industrial, institutional, and commercial users mainly for resale or business use
- 17. a nutritive tissue in seed plants formed within the embryo sac by division of the endosperm nucleus
- 19. full development
- 21. one that processes
- 22. one that grows agricultural products or manufactures crude materials into articles of use
- 23. a microorganism causing disease : a pathogenic agent
- 24. having become unfit for eating
- 25. one engaged in processing food (such as meat) and distributing it to retailers
Down
- 1. one that distributes
- 2. all the companies involved in transforming raw agricultural goods into consumer food products
- 3. gather (a crop) as a harvest
- 6. the edible broken seed coats of cereal grain separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting
- 8. a standard of food quality
- 10. to sell in small quantities directly to the ultimate consumer
- 11. the act or process of gathering in a crop
- 13. a connoisseur of good food
- 16. a person whose business is transporting goods by truck
- 18. too ripe; past its best
- 20. a machine for leveling earth
