Soil
This flower has a different color depending on the pH level of the soil it's in
What are hydrangeas
This is the bright yellow crop you see in the countryside during May
What is rapeseed
This is grown in an orchard
What are fruit trees
This is the word for the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns
What is irrigation
This crop's infection caused a famine in Ireland between 1846 and 1851
What is potato
Healthy soils have this many layers (A.K.A. horizons), beginning with top and organic matter (like plant and animal residues), and ending with bedrock
What is 6
Lettuce can grow during this time
What is all year
Cows are milked this many times per day
What is 2
These flying objects are used for various purposes in farming such as gathering visual data on crops and livestock health to monitor any issues
What are drones
The agricultural blight of the 1930s in the USA is known as this
What is the Dust Bowl
Adding 'lime' does this to soil
What is neutralizes acil
What is June
This is the world's most cultivated plant
What is wheat
The invention of the plow traces back to this ancient civilization
What was Sumer
In the 1990s, this illness previously thought to be confined to cattle was found to have been expanded to impact livestock, other animals, and even humans
What is mad cow disease
Soil stores more of this than anything else, including the atmosphere
What is carbon
Mushrooms are grown during these two months
What are spring and fall
A silage is used for
The cotton gin first came into use in this country during the 5th century
What is India
Since the 1950s, this is how much the world crop production has increased by
What is x3
This flower is particularly beneficial for farmers in restoring nitrogen content to the soil
What is clover
The ancient Mesopotamians linked their farming activities to the movements of this planet
What is Venus
This sheep is bread for both its wool and meat
What is the lonk
This form of genetic editing is now used in certain circumstances to identify and alter an organism’s genome, such as being used to alter a cow’s gut microbes with the aim of controlling the animal’s size as well as reducing the amount of methane they produce
What is CRISPR/Cas9
This prehistoric plow/hoe was used more than 170,000 years ago for tilling the soil and/or for digging up roots and tubers, or burrowing animals and anthills
What is the digging stick