animals
Which P-term refers to a young female chicken (under a year old) who has yet to lay eggs?
pullet
Used to lift water into aqueducts, a noria is a pretty effective irrigation device shaped like which simple machine?
wheel
If you’re interested in winemaking, you’ll want to study viticulture, which tells you everything you need to know about growing which fruit?
grapes
A deep root typical on Oak trees that grows primarily downwards?
Tap Root
What is the horticultural technique in which the scion of one plant is grown on the rootstock of another?
grafting
Provender is another name for which agricultural term for food like sillage and hay that is meant to feed animals—especially livestock?
fodder
rototiller
Which term is defined as green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter?
silage
A dormant plant, ready for transplanting with its roots exposed and with no soil, is known as a ______root.
bareroot
In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what type of insects?
bee
Aside from a billy, what other “B” word can used to describe a male goat? The word can also be used as slang for a dollar bill.
buck
a large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn by a tractor or by animals and used for cutting furrows in the soil and turning it over, especially to prepare for the planting of seeds
plow
What crop, the most common to be rotated with corn, was the focus of China trade war discussions because of the fact that 60% of the U.S. crop was exported to China in 2016?
soybean
What four letter word is a type of rich soil, usually considered ideal for gardening and agriculture, comprising a mixture of sand, clay and humus; that creates an ideal home for agriculture roots?
Loam
What method of applying seed, fertilizer, or pesticide in a wide pattern shares its name with the method of using public airwaves to transmit television?
broadcast
What marital name is given to the science of breeding, feeding, and caring for farm animals in the proper way?
Animal husbandry
What scary-sounding "H" farm implement is defined as "a heavy frame set with teeth or tines which is dragged over plowed land to break up clods, remove weeds, and cover seed?"
harrow
What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?
spinach
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
A term also used in anthropology to mean a society that lacks diversity, what word is used to describe the agricultural practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time?
monoculture
In the 1990s, what illness previously thought to be confined to cattle was found to have been expanded to impact livestock, other animals, and even humans?
Mad Cow Disease
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.
combine
What is the biggest crop export of Texas, and has been for the last 100 years?
cotton
Although it sounds like something more alarming, what seven-letter "S" word means to break up the surface of a field to remove weeds with shallow roots?
scarify
If you're comparing Scotts, Vigoro, and Schultz in an aisle, you're almost certainly looking to buy what critical agricultural "ingredient" that is considered a crucial component of conventional food systems?
fertilizer