Agricultural Scientists
This pioneer American inventor and manufacturor of agricultural implements was apprenticed as a blacksmith at the age of 17.
John Deere
This is the official fruit of Wisconsin.
cranberry
This recurring act of legislation often introduces new rules and program directions for USDA.
Farm Bill
This holiday originally celebrated the birthday of George Washington, military leader of the American Revolution and first president of the United States, and it has been a legal holiday since 1885.
Presidents Day
A little cold / A hot food with meat and beans
chilly/chili
This scientist's life experiences with autism influenced her work in animal behaviors in relation to handling and facility design at farms, ranches and slaughter plants.
Temple Gradin
Annually, Minnesota raises 40-42 million of this livestock.
turkey
This branch of RMA ensures the crop insurance program is adaptive, effective, and actuarially sound at the local level by being responsive to regional stakeholders, producers, and crop insurance providers.
Insurance Services
This holiday features the Tournament of Roses Parade in California.
New Years Day
A musical group / prohibited
band/banned
Best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin, he also became rich for furthering mass production methods, including the production of muskets with interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney
Since 1950, the yield of this crop has increased more than 360%.
corn
This handbook is home to procedure for APH databases and New Producers.
Crop Insurance Handbook
The name of this holiday means “row of lights” in an Ancient language of India, called Sanskrit. During this festival, people decorate their homes with lights and oil lamps, called diyas.
Diwali
Smelly or out of bounds / Related to birds
foul/fowl
Father of the green revolution, this man developed novel varieties of wheat that were short stemmed, reponsive to chemical fertilization, and disease resistant, allowing much higher yields than ever before achieved.
Norman Borlaug
Giant versions of this crop can grow 5 lbs per day
pumpkin
Common to many crop provisions, the definition of causes of loss includes clauses for fire, insects, plant disease, earthquake, volcanic eruption, failure of the irrigation water supply, wildlife, all other causes of loss that cannot be prevented, and this cause of loss which is listed first.
Adverse weather conditions
The Egyptians were the first culture with documented evidence of this now universally celebrated occasion. Uniquely, it also marked the crowning of Pharoahs and their ascendence to godhood.
Birthday
Temporary stop / used by cats to clean
pause/paws
One of the most prominent african american scientists of the 20th century, he developed techniques to improve soils depleted by continuous cotton production.
George Washington Carver
A plantation with fields newly planted with crowns of this crop requires approximately 18 months before the first fruits with typically three-fruitings in a complete crop cycle.
pineapple
This division of RMA, under the Deputy Administrator of Compliance, provides access to and
maintains weather and crop loss data by way of a web application known as Hyper
Dynamic Reporting Application (HyDRA).
Business Analytics Division (BAD)
Many Americans celebrate with food, but this day is the most expensive with more than $107 billion being spent on food each year.
Super Bowl Sunday
Dogs worst nightmare / to leave quickly
flea/flee