Crop Production
This is how farmers get water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
These three nutrients are the main ones required for soil to be useful for growing crops.
What are phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium?
This is the process of rotating what crop you grow in a field each year.
What is crop rotation?
This is the step a crop goes through after harvest to be changed from a raw material.
What is manufacturing/processing?
This is Mr. Bonner's favorite pokemon.
What is Blaziken?
These are the main two types of soil erosion.
What are wind erosion and water erosion?
When crops are planted along a slope instead of up and down it, it is called this.
What is contour farming?
This is why you would plant a cover crop on your field.
What is preventing soil erosion in the off season?
This is the largest food distribution company in the United States.
What is Sysco?
This is Mr. Bonner's favorite artist/band.
What is Paramore?
This is why the United States can produce a wide range of crops.
What is climate and soil diversity?
Crops are usually planted during this time of year and harvested during this time of year. (Two answers (Must be in order))
What are spring and fall?
This downside is present with every alternative method we discussed.
What is being labor intensive?
This is the name of the entire process of a crop becoming a product that you own.
What is farm to table?
Mr. Bonner hates this.
Best answer wins.
This is what most corn grown in the United States is used for.
What is animal feed?
This is a major environmental concern of irrigation.
What is depletion of water sources?
This is why methods are introduced to reduce the amount of pesticides used.
What is the negative environmental impact to surrounding land, water, and ecosystems?
As a product is stored/transported for longer, this is what happens to it.
What is a reduction in freshness?
This is what Mr. Bonner likes to do in his free time.
What is Don't worry about it??????
This pH range is ideal for most crops.
What is 6.0 to 7.0?
The percentage of americans who list farmer as their occupation has changed by this much from 1700 to 1900.
What is a 50% drop?
This is one of the main concerns with introducing predatory insects to your farmland.
What is the introduction of an invasive species?
or
What is getting the timing wrong?
These are three of the reasons products cost more than raw harvested crops.
Three of these:
Advertising costs
Transportation costs
Manufacturing costs
Labor Costs
etc
This is how old Mr. Bonner is.
What is 25?