Basic Agriculture Information
The art and science of cultivating plants, animals and other life forms for use by humans to sustain life.
What is Agriculture?
Plant domesticatied in the Fertile Crescent at 000 BC
What is Fig Trees
Created by John Deere this blade was able to turn over the clay fields in the midwest that increased speed and decreased downtime by drying the ground faster.
What is the steel plow
This 1862 legislation allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of land in a designated area and earn ownership rights by fencing it in, digging a well, plowing ten acres for agriculture production, building a house adn living there.
What is the Homestead Act
The application of scientific knowledge, tools, or processes for practical purposes.
What is Technology?
Land suitable for growing crops
What is aerobic land?
First animal known to be domesticated between 14,000 - 30,000 BC
What is Dog
Tool created by Joseph Glidden in 1874 designed to manage livestock land
What is Barbed Wire
This 1914 act provided federal funding for outreach education for land-grant institutions.
What is the Smith-Lever Act
Branch of science concerned with designing and building new machines, power systems and structures.
What is Engineering
Total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year
What is Gross Domestic Product?
These two animals are domesticated at the same time (7000 BC)
What are pigs and cattle?
Created by Cyrus McCormick this tool had a blade that moved very quickly to cut down grain stalks in a more efficient manner
What is the Mechanical Reaper
This 1917 legislation set up federal funding for agriculture education for students prior to graduation from high school.
What is the Smith-Hughes Act
Methods of managing agricultural land with the assistance of computer or satellite information.
What is Precision Agriculture
10% of all global trade, 1 trillion dollars to USA GDP, and export 20% of the US ag products
What is the economic impact of agriculture?
The process of selecting organisms to breed to create offspring with more desirable characteristics
What is artificial selection
Larger tool that was created by the railroad to decrease the need for draft animals and quickly accomplish task with less people.
What is the steam tractor
This 1887 act designed the set up of agricultural experiment stations.
What is the Hatch Act
The equipment and software that are used to collect, filter, process, and distribute information
What is Information Technology
The amount of land agriculture uses, economic impact of agricultural industries, number of people employed in agriculture worldwide
What is the scope of agriculture
The five characteristics that make animals domesticated from wild animals
Eli Whitney invented this tool to separate the cotton seed from the fiber which increased yield and efficiency
What is the cotton gin
This 1862 act set aside land in every date for college-level education in agriuclture
What is the Morrill Act
Technology used to improve longevity, disease resistance, drought resistance, flavor, and adaptability.
What is biotechnology