Plants
Which is a chemical characteristic of soil?
Texture
pH
Porosity
pH
An animal with this type of digestive system can improve quality of protein in the diet
Ruminant
This is the method for calculating a Gross Margin
Income - Variable Costs = Gross Margin
A source of funding for research and experimentation
Universities, companies, government, individual person
It has ears but cannot hear
Corn/maize
This test is conducted by making a moist soil ball in your hand and checking its grittiness, stickiness, and ability to form a ribbon between the fingers. What is it testing for?
soil texture
The nutrition requirements of an animal is the same throughout its life
True or False
False
Name a market specification for beef cattle
P8 fat depth, colour on meat and fat, pH, condition score
Name a method of market for a new technology or product
I am an animal and a hair product.
Moose
I am an output of photosynthesis
glucose and oxygen
Order of energy flow within an animal:
Gross Energy - Digestible Energy - Metabolic Energy - Net Energy
True or False
True
A management decision to improve the feeding of their cattle includes selecting appropriate pastures that are productive and provide the required nutrients for the cattle
True or False
True
A reason for a farmer not to embrace a new technology/processes/products
Costs, training, support services, space required, downtime before profits known
Legumes convert nitrogen in the air into what form that is able to be absorbed by plants
Nitrite
Nitrate
Ammonia
Nitrate
Bone, muscle and fat formation is directly related to the growth and development of the animal. During puberty:
1. which increases
2. which decrease
1. muscle
2. bone
It is important to undertake this procedure with unproductive animals
cull them
This sustainable method of farming is the practice of growing specific herbaceous crops and then plowing them into the soil while still green to improve soil fertility and health by adding organic matter and nitrogen.
Green manuring
This management technique is used to manipulate the growth and development of an animal. It relies on slow-release implants containing natural hormones used in cattle to improve growth rates and feed efficiency, leading to increased weight gain and profitability.
Hormone growth promotants
This type of marketing ensures that all parties are in agreement for a set quantity and quality of beef to be delivered each month to a sale yards or company such as butcher or Woollies
Contract selling