Animals & Plants
The biological science and management of domestic livestock, including beef cattle, horses, sheep, swine and companion animals
What is Animal Science?
The science of cultivating soil, growing crops, and raising livestock to produce food and fiber
What is Agriculture?
The science that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations they undergo
What is Chemistry?
The managing, marketing, and financing of food, fiber, and fuel products for domestic and global markets
What is Agribusiness?
Food grown and processed using no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides
What is Organic Farming?
The study of living organisms
What is Biology?
The science of soil management and crop production
What is Agronomy?
The branch of science concerned with the chemical and physicochemical processes and substances that occur within living organism
What is Biochemistry?
The branch of engineering that deals with the design of farm machinery, the location and planning of farm structures, farm drainage, soil management and erosion control, water supply and irrigation, rural electrification, and the processing of farm products
What is Agriculture Engineering?
The science of growing fruit
What is Pomology?
Controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and the cultivation of aquatic plants for food
What is Aquaculture?
Involves the design, installation, and maintenance of both outdoor and indoor environments
What is Landscape Horticulture?
Study of chemistry (Organic & Biochemistry), as they relate to agriculture
What is Agricultural Chemistry?
Deals with energy production using a renewable energy source like solar, wind, water (hydro and tidal), biomass (biofuels and wastes), and geothermal heat
What is Renewable Natural Resources Technology?
Branch of horticulture dealing with the production, storage, processing, and marketing of vegetables
What is Olericulture?
The study of insects
What is Entomology?
The study of the world's major food, feed, turf, and fiber crops and their environment
What is Crop Science?
Combines the study of grasses, soils, water, and pests
What is Turf Science?
Type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area
What is Intensive Farming?
Growing and marketing plants for flower arrangement and landscape design
What is Ornamental Horticulture?
Focuses on supplying water for human use, removing water when humans are finished using it and developing methods of avoiding damage from excess water (floods)
What is Water Resources Engineering?
The cultivation of flowers
What is Floriculture?
Multidisciplinary field involving chemistry, biochemistry, nutrition, microbiology and engineering to give one the scientific knowledge to solve real problems associated with the many facets of the food system
What is Food Science?
The use of engineering and manufacturing technology to make production faster, simpler, and more efficient
What is Industrial Technology?
Farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale
What is Subsistence Farming?