Use Classifications
These crops are grasses cultivated primarily for their edible seeds, such as corn, wheat, barley, and oats.
What are cereal crops?
Crops whose entire life cycle is completed within a single year or less, requiring replanting every year.
What are annual crops?
This crop can be introduced into your rotation to fix nitrogen in the soil.
What are legumes?
This term describes the underground soil level where soil is completely saturated with water.
What is the water table?
This easy-to-implement irrigation method delivers a uniform supply of water across an entire field and is controlled by time.
What is sprinkler irrigation?
This category consists of nitrogen-fixing plants, such as soybeans and peanuts, that produce edible seeds.
What are seed legume crops?
Cotton, tobacco, and citrus are examples of crops in this category that require warm temperatures and are best adapted to areas without freezing or frost.
What are warm season crops?
This type of crop is the most expensive to plant, nurture, and harvest.
What are specialty crops?
A large land area in which water from rain or melting snow is absorbed before draining into streams, rivers, and lakes.
What is a watershed?
Although expensive to set up initially, this system offers the lowest operating costs and the most efficient water use during operation.
What is drip irrigation?
Alfalfa, clover, and orchard grass belong to this commercial crop category grown for hay, silage, or pastures for livestock feed.
What are forage crops?
Normally grown in the Northern half of the U.S., these crops—including grains, tubers, and apples—require a period of cool weather for maximum production.
What are cool season crops?
Harvesting of grain crops is 100% mechanized using these large machines equipped with specialized headers.
What are combine harvesters?
This specific form of groundwater drains out of soil after being wetted.
What is gravitational water?
Before surface irrigation can be utilized on cropland, the field must first undergo this land preparation step.
What is being leveled?
Unlike root crops grown for fleshy storage roots, tuber crops are harvested for these thickened plant structures.
What are underground storage stems?
These crops live and produce for more than two years without replanting due to their extensive root systems.
What are perennial crops?
The depth that small oilseeds, such as canola, need to be planted at.
What is 0.25 to 0.5 inches?
Moisture that remains in the soil after gravitational water has drained and is held loosely enough to be absorbed by plant roots.
What is capillary water?
Irrigation systems are used to transport this natural resource to crops.
What is water?
Peanuts belong to these two use classification categories.
What are legumes and oilseeds?
Biennial crops take two growing seasons to fully mature. This part of the plant is only produced after the second season.
What are flowers?
The name of the structure used to store harvested cereal crops.
What are silos?
The Rockford watershed drains out of this body of water.
What is the Rogue River?
Beside soil, natural rainfall, and water table levels, this atmospheric factor directly determines how much water is available to plants.
What are prevailing winds?