General Agriculture
Food and Products
Terminology
Animal Husbandry
Livestock Breeds
100
This is the percent of farms in the U.S. that are operated by families.
What is 97%?
100
This was the first vegetable grown in outer space.
What is the potato.
100
This four letter word is the term used to describe a baby horse.
What is a foal?
100
The average dairy cow drinks this many gallons of water per day.
What is 35 gallons.
100
This breed is the most common beef breed in the United States.
What is Angus?
200
Of every dollar spent on food, this is how much the farmer receives on average.
What is 16 cents?
200
This fruit contains chemicals known to reduce inflammatory pain better than aspirin or ibuprofen.
What is a tart cherry.
200
Most people know that a male pig is a boar and a female is a sow, but most people do not know these terms describing a castrated male and a female prior to giving birth.
What are a barrow and a gilt?
200
This is the normal body temperature range of a pig.
What is 101.6-104
200
This breed of swine is known for being black with a white belt around the mid-section.
What is Hampshire?
300
On average, Americans spend this percent of their income on food.
What is 10%?
300
On average, Americans consume 17.3 billion quarts of this. Get some quick, it's almost movie time.
What is popcorn?
300
Known for their high rate of production, this breed of chicken is the most commonly used breed in the U.S. in egg operations.
What is the white leghorn?
300
Corn silage, pasture, and hay are examples of this type of feed.
What are roughages?
300
This breed of dairy cattle is the second most common, beat only by the Holstein
What is Brown Swiss?
400
210,000 full-time use farms produce this percent of the United States' food.
What is 80%?
400
This product symbolizes unity in the FFA because it is grown in every U.S. state.
What is corn?
400
This two letter word is the term used to describe a castrated bull after four years of age.
What is an Ox?
400
The amount of fat on a market animal is known as (blank).
What is finish?
400
This breed of horse, known for their strength, are the most commonly inbred horses in the the world.
What are Clydesdales?
500
This man once said, "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
500
A 60-pound bushel of this crop yields about 48 pounds of protein-rich meal and 11 pounds of oil.
What are soybeans?
500
This is the term used to describe the act of a goat giving birth.
What is kidding?
500
When an animal bloats, a needle can be placed through the side of the animal and into the rumen to relieve pressure. This process is known as (blank).
What is rumenostomy?
500
Beef cattle are divided into two main classifications based on their origin. The two classifications are Continental breeds and these types, named for their country of origin.
What are English breeds?