Principles of Agriculture

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