Soil Health

What does USDA offer?

Disasters and other risks

Land Tenure and Succession planning

Advocacy & farm policy
100

This is considered the ideal combination of sand, silt, and clay for farming and gardening. 

What is Loam?

100

You need this code, attached to your farm land, in order to participate in USDA Programs.

What is: a farm number?

100

This individual can declare a disaster

Who is: the President of the United States?

100

What is the term for land or a home passed down through generations without a will or formal estate plan, resulting in multiple family members owning undivided interests?

What is: Heirs Property?

100

The farm bill is passed with this frequency: 

What is: Every 5 years?

200

These 5 living organisms are found in healthy soil: 

What are: Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, earthworms

200

This agency offers US (Rural) Housing loans

What is: Rural Development?

200

This is the most frequently occurring natural disaster in the United States

What is: Flooding?

200

This document directs how property is to be distributed to beneficiaries and heirs upon a person’s death.

What is: A Last Will & Testament?

200

Congress has passed this many farm bills:

What is: 18?

300

The ideal ratio of these 3 essential elements for plants generally varies from a balanced 1:1:1 to any ratio that supports specific growth needs for crops, lawns and flowers

What is: NPK?

300

This USDA program helps cover crop losses from drought, floods, and other natural disasters

What is: disaster assistance?

300

This form of media provides the majority of rural communities with disaster-related information.

What is: Radio?

300

This is a legally binding document that allows you to appoint someone to manage your property, medical or financial affairs. 

What is: Power of Attorney?

300

There are this many titles in the 2018 Farm Bill

What is: 12?

400

Which bacteria shares a symbiotic relationship with legume roots to fix nitrogen?

What is: Rhizobia?

400

This was a U.S. government agency established in August 1946 to replace the Farm Security Administration. It superseded the Resettlement Administration during the Great Depression and operated until 2006

What is: Farmers Home Administration (FMHA)?

400

This historic event of the 1930s prompted the creation of the federal agency, Soil Conservation Service, now known as Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)?

What is: The Dust Bowl?

400

This is a court-appointed person or institution responsible for carrying out the terms of a Last Will and Testament and overseeing the probate of the Will and administering assets (or the estate)

What: is an Executor?

400

There are this many members on the house agriculture committee

What is: 54?

500

This word refers to organic matter that has been decomposed by soil microflora and fauna to the point where it is resistant to further breakdown.

What is: Humus?

500

Former president Abraham Lincoln referred to USDA in as:

What is: “The People’s Department”?

500

This is an important tool in managing risk on the farm.

What is: Crop Insurance?

500

This is the appointment of a guardian or conservator by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of another person due to old age or physical or mental limitations.

What is: Conservatorship and/or Guardianship?

500

This important food assistance program is legislated by the Farm Bill

What is: SNAP?