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Any plant cultivated by people.
What is a crop?
What is a ruminant?
Farming with the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
What is conventional agriculture?
A person who uses goods or services.
What is a consumer?
A piece of land on which crops or animals are raised.
What is a farm?
Nitrogen-fixing legume commonly grown in SD.
What are soybeans?
Chickens, pigs, and other farm animals are allowed to move around and feed naturally. This is considered to be a kinder method of farming than intensive methods.
What is free-range?
Government certification given to businesses and farmers who produce products without the use of chemicals.
What is certified organic?
Someone who manufactures something.
What is a producer?
Refers to being in the country, rather than in towns or cities.
What is rural?
Waxy like coloring utensil made from soybeans.
What are crayons?
To produce new plants or animals from existing ones, especially in order to produce plants or animals with particular characteristics.
What is breed?
System of cultivation where different crops are planted in consecutive growing seasons to maintain soil fertility.
What is crop rotation?
The practice of handling food during harvest, storage, and preparation to ensure that produce is clean and will not cause sickness.
What is food safety?
Trading items for other items without exchanging money.
The U.S. government department responsible for farming laws and farm products.
What is the USDA?
An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals, such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats.
What is Animal Husbandry?
The amount of crop that is produced.
What is yield?
The process of heating milk to kill disease-producing bacteria; this helps to prevent spoiling without destroying vitamins or changing taste.
What is pasteurization?
The use of genetically engineered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock inorder to increase production. Example: radiation of meats and vegetables to prolong their freshness.
What is Biotechnology?
Animal that can run a seven-minute mile.
What are pigs?
The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What is agriculture?
A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field.
What is a combine?
An animal, plant, or microbe whose DNA has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
What is a GMO?
Invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques.
What is the Green Revolution?