Agriculture Basics
What are the three main things that agriculture gives us?
What is food to eat, clothes to wear, and a house to live in
What United States President grew up in Plains, Georgia on a peanut farm?
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Nebraska produces what three main exports
What is soybeans, beef, and corn?
Grits are a by-product of what product?
What is corn/cornmeal?
What does FFA stand for?
What is Future Farmers of America?
What are two types of cows?
What are beef and dairy?
Who invented the center pivot irrigation system?
Hint: Last name like a teething cracker for babies.
Who is Frank Zybach?
Nebraska is in ______place for popcorn production.
Think: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd
What is first place?
What is an example of livestock?
What is a cow, pig, sheep, chicken, goat, etc.?
What are the first two words of the FFA Creed?
What is "I Believe"?
What are broilers?
What are chickens?
A center pivot irrigation system makes what shape in a field?
What is a circle?
What is Nebraska's #1 Commodity?
What is corn?
What is Nebraska's number 1 industry?
What is agriculture?
What two states are actually first and second for beef?
What are Texas (1st) and Nebraska/Kansas (2nd)?
Name four of Nebraska's top 10 commodities.
What is cattle and calves, hay, wheat, dairy products, corn, soybeans, hogs. misc. crops, chicken eggs, and dry edible beans?
What was the name of the historic event that caused so many farmers to lose their farms in the 1930's?
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is Nebraska's main resource?
What is crude petroleum or power (natural gas)?
Name three jobs in agriculture (besides farmer)?
What is veterinarian, ag teacher, truck driver, food packager, nursery, florist--lawyer, accountant, mechanics, journalist, etc.
What is the most popular fruit in Nebraska?
What is an apple?
A _________is a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold.
What is a commodity?
Who encouraged the planting of peanuts, made peanut butter popular, and developed 100 products using peanuts? Must be all 3 parts of his name
Who is George Washington Carver?
Agriculture provides what percent of jobs in Nebraska?
What is 25 percent?
The center pivot system quickly and efficiently does what?
What irrigates or waters a farmer's crops?
Each person at your table name one thing that agriculture gives them each day.
Example: Agriculture provides my dog and cat food daily.