What is Ag?
These three things are produced within agriculture.
What is food, fiber and fuel?
This was the first major crop to help settle the United States.
What is cotton?
This was the first major livestock animal that helped settle the United States.
What are cattle?
This region is the best for production due to its flat land and fertile soil.
What is the Midwest?
What is an acre?
This percentage of Americans work within agriculture.
This variety of cotton could be grown in many different regions of the U.S., but was very difficult to clean.
What is upland cotton?
This region of the United States was ideal for cattle production, but was far away from a large majority of the population.
What is the West?
This piece of equipment, developed by John Deere, was able to break up the soil for production.
What is the steel plow?
11,000 heads of this leafy green can be grown on a single acre of land.
What is lettuce?
These non-necessary items help entertain us during our free time.
What are luxuries?
This variety of cotton was super easy to harvest and clean, but was very limited in the areas it could grow.
What is the sea upland cotton?
This major development, finished in 1869, helped people travel westward in a quicker manner.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Cyrus McCormick invented this series of rotating sickle blades to help make harvesting quicker.
What is the reaper?
On one acre of land, 42,000 lbs of this fruit can be produced.
What are strawberries?
The United States spends this small percentage of their income on food.
What is 10%?
This invention, created by Eli Whitney, used a series of spikes and brushes to help separate and remove the cotton fiber from the seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
These were destinations along the railroad where ranchers could ship their cattle to the East.
What are railheads?
This peice of equipment removed the grains from the body of the plant.
What is a thresher?
The United States contributes to 1/4 of the world's supply of this commodity.
What is beef?
The United States is perfect for producing commodities because of these two things.
What are fertile soils and good climates?
Because of the cotton gin, the United States was able to do this with their extra supply of cotton.
What is export?
This invention helped the cattle industry by allowing ranchers to raise and slaughter their animals in areas that weren't necessarily population hubs.
What are refrigerated boxcars?
The early inventions of the reaper and thresher later developed into this piece of equipment many farmers own and use today.
What is the combine?
25,400 lbs of this root vegetable can be grown on an acre of land.
What are potatoes?