Farm Implements
New Holland, Case IH, and Kubota are among that brands that make what large-wheeled motor vehicles, often used on farms to haul equipment and trailers?
Tractors
This row crop is commonly fed to cattle or eaten in a can or off the cob by humans
Corn
This is located at the top of the chickens head and is different for different breeds.
What is a comb?
This crop usually grown in West Tennessee is used in clothing
Cotton
What is grown in an orchard?
Fruit Trees
What two word machine, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, separates fibers of a certain plant from its seeds?
Cotton Gin
this cereal crop makes the flour that is turned into bread, pasta and pastries.
Wheat
Which P-term refers to a young female chicken (under a year old) who has yet to lay eggs?
Pullet
What is the State Agricultural Insect
Honeybee
This is the most widely eaten meat product in the world
Pork
What agricultural machine, sometimes called a harvester, gets its name from the fact that it merges four different farming techniques? These are reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing.
What is a Combine
Which currency term is used for a crop that is grown to be sold for profit?
Cash Crop
This animal is raised for both wool and meat
Sheep
Which of these are NOT one of TN's top commodities
cattle, broilers, soybeans, peanuts, corn
peanuts
What is the world's most cultivated plant?
Wheat
What agricultural process is the creation of small holes in the soil, allowing air and other other nutrients to reach a plant’s roots?
Aeration
This advance in science allows scientists to put desirable traits in crops and change plant characterises
Genetic Modification
What part of a horse's bridle is in it's mouth
Bit
About how much of TN land is used for agricultural purposes?
30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
80%
In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what type of insects?
Honeybee
An early and critical proponent of crop rotation, what man headed the Agriculture Department at the Tuskegee Institute and taught there for 47 years while researching soil's nitrogen contents and new crop products?
George Washington Carver
While it is known as the Peach State, Georgia is also the nation's largest producer of what legume that is also the state crop?
Peanut
What is the name for a Female Sheep
Ewe
Stewart County is in the top 10 of this crop production in the state
Tobacco
How was the agricultural blight of the 1930s in the USA known?
Dust Bowl