animals
farm equipment
farm crops
roots
random farm process
100

Which P-term refers to a young female chicken (under a year old) who has yet to lay eggs?

pullet

100

Used to lift water into aqueducts, a noria is a pretty effective irrigation device shaped like which simple machine?

wheel

100

If you’re interested in winemaking, you’ll want to study viticulture, which tells you everything you need to know about growing which fruit?

grapes

100

A deep root typical on Oak trees that grows primarily downwards?

Tap Root

100

What is the horticultural technique in which the scion of one plant is grown on the rootstock of another?

grafting

200

Provender is another name for which agricultural term for food like sillage and hay that is meant to feed animals—especially livestock?

fodder

200

  1. a motor-driven machine with rotating blades for breaking up the soil.


rototiller

200

Which term is defined as green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter?

silage

200

A dormant plant, ready for transplanting with its roots exposed and with no soil, is known as a ______root.

bareroot

200

In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what type of insects?

bee

300

Aside from a billy, what other “B” word can used to describe a male goat? The word can also be used as slang for a dollar bill.

buck

300

a large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn by a tractor or by animals and used for cutting furrows in the soil and turning it over, especially to prepare for the planting of seeds

plow

300

What crop, the most common to be rotated with corn, was the focus of China trade war discussions because of the fact that 60% of the U.S. crop was exported to China in 2016?

soybean

300

What four letter word is a type of rich soil, usually considered ideal for gardening and agriculture, comprising a mixture of sand, clay and humus; that creates an ideal home for agriculture roots?

Loam

300

What method of applying seed, fertilizer, or pesticide in a wide pattern shares its name with the method of using public airwaves to transmit television?

broadcast

400

What marital name is given to the science of breeding, feeding, and caring for farm animals in the proper way?

Animal husbandry

400

What scary-sounding "H" farm implement is defined as "a heavy frame set with teeth or tines which is dragged over plowed land to break up clods, remove weeds, and cover seed?"

harrow

400

What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?

spinach

400

What agricultural process is the creation of small holes in the soil, allowing air and other other nutrients to reach a plant’s roots?

aeration

400

A term also used in anthropology to mean a society that lacks diversity, what word is used to describe the agricultural practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time?

monoculture

500

In the 1990s, what illness previously thought to be confined to cattle was found to have been expanded to impact livestock, other animals, and even humans?

Mad Cow Disease

500

What 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.

combine

500

What is the biggest crop export of Texas, and has been for the last 100 years?

cotton

500

Although it sounds like something more alarming, what seven-letter "S" word means to break up the surface of a field to remove weeds with shallow roots?

scarify

500

If you're comparing Scotts, Vigoro, and Schultz in an aisle, you're almost certainly looking to buy what critical agricultural "ingredient" that is considered a crucial component of conventional food systems?

fertilizer