Animals
Farm animal is often called "man's best friend" because it helps guard and herd
What is dog?
The world's most important source of vegetable oil.
What is soybeans?
New Holland, Case IH, and Kubota are among the brands that make large-wheeled motor vehicles, often used on farms to haul equipment and trailers.
What are tractors?
Although the statue is located more than 60 miles from its company headquarters, the city of Blue Earth, MN is home to a 55-foot-tall statue of a verdant vegetable mascot.
Who is the Jolly Green Giant?
Farm animals that give us milk
Type of farming that focuses on growing crops and raising animals without synthetic chemicals.
What is organic farming?
Plant that gives us cotton for making clothes.
What is cotton plant?
In 1837, an inventor created the steel plow, which was stronger than the iron plows then in use. His name is still well-known for agricultural equipment.
Who is John Deere?
Indigenous people in pre-Columbian North America developed a system of companion planting in which maize, beans, and squash were grown together in a mutually beneficial system. These three crops were typically known as "the Three _________".
What is Sisters?
Insect that makes honey.
What is a honeybee?
Type of farming that uses water based mineral nutrient solutions to grow plants.
What is hydroponics?
Main crop used to make bread around the world.
What is wheat?
This 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.
What is a combine?
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's landmark work of environmental writing, helped lead to a worldwide ban on this three-letter agricultural pesticide.
What is DDT?
Farm animal often called "the ship of the desert".
What is a camel?
Type of farming that grows plants without soil, but roots suspended in the air and mist-based nutrients.
What is aeroponics?
Grain that is staple food for more than half of the world's population.
What is rice?
A common type of farm implement used to compress and cut a raked crop like cotton, flax, or hay, into shapes that are easy to transport and store.
What is a baler?
This two-word machine invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney separates fibers of a certain plant from its seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
Word that means a female dairy animal that has not yet given birth and therefore does not produce milk.
What is a heifer?
What type of farming is commonly referred to as beekeeping, the technical term for maintaining buzzy colonies? (Hint: The name comes from Apis - the genus that most honeybees belong to)
What is apiculture?
Most consumed fruit in the world.
What is banana?
Tower, bunker, and bag are currently the three most common types of building whose name comes from a Greek word for “pit for holding grain”.
What is silo?
This mascot is shared by Texas A&M, North Carolina A&T, New Mexico State, Utah State, and many other universities in recognition of their heritage as agricultural training institutions.
What is Aggies?