Animal Science
This is the agricultural commodity that provides the majority of the world's milk supply.
What are dairy cows?
This is the state soil of North Carolina.
What is Cecil?
This crop can be used in rotations because of its ability to form Rhizobia associations and fix nitrogen.
What are soybeans?
This job title means you work directly with farmers and help give them advanced knowledge about increasing their crop yields. There are offices in every county in North Carolina and in the Cherokee nation.
What is an extension agent?
This person is everyone's favorite professor in Williams Hall.
Who is Bob Patterson?
This is the smartest domesticated farm animal.
What is a pig?
This soil order is typically found in North Carolina and is characterized by base saturation below 35%.
What is an Ultisol?
This state is the top producer of corn in the United States.
What is Iowa?
This is the process of inserting new genes into a cell in order to change the characteristics of an organism.
What is genetic engineering?
This is the name of NC State's own ice cream.
What is Howling Cow?
This is how much water a cow must drink to produce a gallon of milk.
What is 3-5 gallons?
This is the process of adding plant material to soils and converting it into organic matter.
What is humification?
This was North Carolina's first cash crop.
What is tobacco?
This is a common flower that is grown to produce cooking oil.
What are sunflowers?
This farm located off Lake Wheeler Road grows food that goes straight to NCSU's dining halls.
What is the agroecology farm?
This is how much wool a mature ewe can produce in a year.
What is 7 to 10 pounds?
This chart helps to identify the type of organic material (fibric, hemic, sapric) by using degree of decomposition, nature of residues, nature of water expressed on squeezing, and decomposition description.
What is the Von Post chart?
This is the scientific name for growing fruit.
What is pomology?
This sector of the NCDA focuses on natural resource conservation. The division provides financial, technical, and educational resources to districts and focuses their efforts on nonpoint source pollution and best soil conservation practices.
What is soil and water conservation?
This is a controlled laboratory located on both main and centennial campus that grows plants under precisely controlled environmental conditions.
What is the phytotron?
This is the term for a young chicken who has not laid eggs yet.
What is a pullet?
These are the two proposed soil orders. If voted in, then the number of orders would increase from 12 to 14.
What are artesols and aquasols?
This is the county that is the leading producer of peanuts in North Carolina. They produced about 47,000,000 pounds last year.
What is Martin County?
Name the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, give me his hometown, and tell me how long he has served in office (3-part answer).
Who is Steve Troxler, what is Browns Summit, and what is since 2005?
This was Chancellor Woodson's major at Cornell University.
What is horticulture?