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100
This crop is grown for animals to eat the leaves, such as pasture and hay crops
What is a forage crop?
100
This is an example of a cereal crop
Rice, wheat
100
Plowing the soil to remove weeds or prepare soil for planting seeds
what is tillage?
100
What is this machine used to harvest?
What is a cotton
100
This technology allows a farmer to identify specific problem areas within a field rather than treating the entire field
What is precision farming?
200
This type of crop is grown for humans to eat the grains
what is a cereal crop?
200
This is an example of an oil crop
soybeans, peanuts,
200
to add nutrient to the soil fro plant growth
What is fertilization?
200
What is this machine used to harvest?
scout crops and map fields
200
This technology allows a farmer to know exactly where they are located within a field and allows them to return to an exact location when they return. It also helps to control the auto steer system on the tractor
What is GPS?
300
this crop is grown to have the vegetable oil extracted from their seeds
What is an oil crop?
300
This is the most commonly used fiber crop
What is cotton?
300
to put a seed or live plant in the ground for growth
What is planting?
300
Name 2 farming practices that are not sustainable
using fossil fuels for fertilizer, over irrigation
300
This technology reduces the amount of soil erosion by reducing or eliminating plowing of the soil
What is conservation tillage?
400
crops grown to make products from the fiber the crops produce
What is a fiber crop?
400
This is the most common feed grain crop
What is corn?
400
to prevent or eliminate insects, weeds, or disease
What is pest control?
400
What is a genetically modified organism?
plants that have been developed by taking the genes from other species and placing in the DNA
400
Implementing farming practices which allow us to farm in that manner forever
What is sustainable farming?
500
Crops that are grown for the grain (seeds) to be fed to livestock
What is a feed grain crop?
500
This is an example of a forage crop
Bermudagrass, fescue, clover
500
to gather the crop at the end of the season
What is Harvesting
500
Give an example of 2 technologies in agronomy that have arisen from the development of the GPS
Drones, auto steer tractors, field mapping, precision crop application equipment.
500
Name and describe 3 non-farm jobs in the agronomy industry.
What is seed scientist, equipment salesman, mill operator, equipment technician, etc.?