Inventions
What invention was created in 1874?
What is BARBED WIRE.
What year was the Morrill Land Grant Act established?
What is 1862
What is Nevada's #5 commodity and how much money does it bring in a year?
What era was based on having members of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and gathering plants to eat rather than by growing crops and raising animals.
What is the HUNTER AND GATHER ERA.
What is the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock?
What is AGRICULTURE
What year was the Cotton Gin invented and who invented it?
What is 1793 by ELI WHITNEY
What act provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics?
What is the SMITH HUGHES ACT
What is Nevada's #8 commodity and how much money does it bring in a year?
What is WHEAT AND $4.06 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR
What percentage of Americans are directly involved in production agriculture?
What is 2%
What invention was created in 1831?
What was the MECHANICAL REAPER?
What was to GIVE PUBLIC LAND TO PERSONS WILLING TO FARM IT.
What is Nevada's #1 commodity and how much money does it bring in a year?
Today less than 2% of the population farms. On average 1 farmer can produce enough to feed and clothe how many people?
What is 165 PEOPLE.
How many steps are involved in producing an Agricultural Product?
What is 8 STEPS
Who is credited for inventing the plow?
Who is JOHN DEERE
When was the Homestead Act Established?
What was 1862
What is Nevada's #3 commodity and how much money does it bring in a year?
What is HAY AND $113 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Today the number of farms in the U.S. has _______________, all while the size of the farms based on acreage has ____________________.
What is DECREASED and INCREASED
From the years of 1800's-1850's what percentage of the population still farmed?
What is 92%
When was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
What is 1890.
When was the Smith Hughes Act established?
What was 1917
What is Nevada's #10 commodity and how much money does it bring in a year?
What is TROUT AND $1.14 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
When and where did the Agriculture Revolution start?
What is 10,000 B.C. IN THE FERTILE CRESENT.
The average farm size is how many acres?
What is 446 ACRES.