Machinery
What agricultural machine gets its name from the merger of four different farming techniques? (reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing)
Combine
This popular game from the early 2000's, brought back to the spotlight by the Nintendo Switch, allows players on an island village to grow crops, collect and craft items, catch fish, and befriend animal villagers.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
This type of corn is primarily used for animal field and industrial products
Field corn
What is the horticultural technique in which crops are rotated each season
Crop rotation
In 1917, this piece of legislation provided federal funding to support vocational education programs in school and later led to the formation of Future Farmers of America
Smith-Hughes Act
Which machinery company is named after a skilled blacksmith, famous in his time for developing a self-scouring steel plow in 1837?
John Deere
This famous country star and American Idol judge grew up on a peanut farm in Georgia
Luke Bryan
This type of cotton is known for its long fibers and is highly valued for making high-quality textiles
Egyptian cotton
What grade comes between Prime, which is the most marbled, and Select, which is less marbled, on the US Department of Agriculture's beef grading scale?
Choice
The Dust Bowl, a period of severe drought in the 1930s that devastated farmers, started in what mid-western state, that looks like a cooking pot?
Oklahoma
What two word machine, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, separates fibers of a certain plant from its seeds?
cotton gin
This billionaire figure who co-founded Microsoft is heavily involved in agriculture development, particularly in crop yields and food security to promote sustainable farming practices
Bill Gates
Iowa is the country's largest producer of which crop, that can be used to produce products such as ethanol and rubber.
Corn
In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what?
Hint: You don't want to be stung by these!
Bees
Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Norman Borlaug, received an honorary doctoral degree from WSU during commencement in 1995. Borlaug and WSU professor, Orville Vogel, are credited with research crucial to the start of the ______________?
Pesticides
Which company is credited with the creation of the first quad track tractor?
John Deere
80% of sugar produced in the world is from sugarcane, with most of the rest being produced from the "sugar" variety of what root vegetable?
Hint: Thanks to Schrute Farms!
Beets
California produces 98% of the United States' output of this popular green snack that comes in a shell, and is green on the inside.
Pistachios
This type of crop is grown primarily for sale rather than for personal consumption
Cash crop
This insect's invasion of the US cotton fields in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to a significant agricultural crisis and a coordinated eradication effort in this 100-year war.
The boll weevil
What 18th century cotton yarn processing invention relied on hydroelectric power
Water frame
An animal science professor at the University of Nebraska is credited with developing the process behind restructured meats. Examples of restructured meats include Dino Nuggets and what fast food sandwich that has attracted a cult following since its introduction in 1981?
McRib
Certain crops cannot tolerate certain temperatures, what is this term called
Cold-intolerant
What is the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil?
Hydroponics
Hurricane Ike devastated parts of southeast Texas in 2006, causing tremendous damage to cattle ranchers, timberlands, and growers of what most common crop in the world, but primarily only grown in coastal Texas and the Mississippi River Delta in the United States?
Hint: You eat this crop at Mexican and Chinese restaurants
Rice