Local (NC) AG
This is the #1 sold crop in North Carolina?
What is Sweet Potato
This is the process by which green plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
Year the Fraternity of Alpha Zeta was founded
What is 1897?
This 1862 U.S. law provided federal land to states to establish colleges focused on agriculture and mechanical arts.
What is the Morrill Act?
NCSU is a ________ university
What is a land grant university?
This livestock industry is one of North Carolina's agricultural powerhouses and makes the state famous for a particular type of meat.
What is Pork?
What state produces more soybeans than any other state in the US?
What is Illinois?
Year the North Carolina Chapter was founded
What is 1904?
This agricultural invention, patented by John Deere in 1837, greatly improved farmers' ability to plow the tough soils of the American Midwest.
What is the steel plow?
What is the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
North Carolina is one of the leading U.S. producers of this legume, with production concentrated primarily in the northeastern part of the state.
What are peanuts?
This nutrient is represented by the "N" in the N-P-K numbers found on fertilizer bags.
What is nitrogen?
Alpha Zeta was founded in 1897 at this university, making it one of the oldest agricultural fraternities in the United States.
What is Cornell University?
This devastating agricultural event of the 1930s was caused by severe drought, poor land management, and massive dust storms across the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What year did NC State men's basketball team win the NCAA tournament under Jim Valvano
What is 1983?
This NC agriculture commissioner served from 1964 until 2001, was elected nine times, and became known by the nickname "The SodFather."
Who is Jim Graham
Approximately what percentage of the world's pistachios are produced by the United States?
What is 30%?
Year that women were invited to join the brotherhood
What is 1972?
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, this machine dramatically sped up the process of separating cotton fibers from their seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
This was the first building on NC State's campus and originally housed virtually everything the college needed, including classrooms, a library, dining hall, and dormitories.
What is Holiday Hall?
According to recent USDA data, approximately how many farms are there in North Carolina: 10,000, 25,000, 41,000, or 100,000?
What is 41,000
Approximately how many pounds of milk does a dairy cow produce in a typical year?
What is 23,000 lbs?
Founders of the AZ fraternity
Who is Charles William Burkett and John Ferguson Cunningham?
This ancient civilization is credited with developing one of the earliest known systems of irrigation to support agriculture in a dry environment.
What is Mesopotamia?
What county/city is Kevin Howell from?
Cleveland/Shelby