Types of Agriculture
This type of agriculture does not include mechanical turning of soil.
What is no-till?
This type of nutrient leaches quickly out of soil.
What is nitrogen?
These are the two most common organic crops by sales.
What are apples and lettuce?
A land trust does this.
Conserves land for the use of the public and protection of the natural environment.
This type of farming is often associated with a genetically modified mono-crop, heavy tillage, pesticide use.
What is conventional farming?
What is symbiotic?
This type of fertilizer and pesticide is not allowed in organic farming.
What is synthetic?
This piece of equipment used at Erickson is NOT certified organic.
Rank in order of least to most beneficial to soil health three types of farming.
What are conventional, sustainable, and regenerative?
Plants use this to feed microbes by exchanging sugars.
What is root exudates.
This government agency gives out organic certifications.
What is the USDA?
Carrie is from this state.
What is Pennsylvania?