What is Ag?
Agriculture is a...
What is a science?
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?
A product or material brought into the country.
What is an import?
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?
A product or material shipped out of the country.
What is an export?
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?
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?
A raw material or product that can be bought or sold.
What is a commodity?
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?