Smart Farming: Li
Li uses high-tech tools called sensors to check his soil. Name two of the three variables those sensors track automatically.
What are Moisture, Light, or Temperature?
This key mathematical vocabulary word stands for the total amount of clean, usable food a plant or a farm field produces at harvest time.
What is Yield?
According to Mateo, this is the immediate consequence that hits a neighborhood’s grocery store if a major food supply chain breaks down.
What is Food costs more money (prices skyrocket)?
This method of modern farming allows tech-savvy growers to cultivate massive amounts of leafy greens entirely without dirt, using only nutrient-rich water.
What is Hydroponics?
Name the three distinct spatial measurements Fatima uses to calculate the exact internal volume of a garden box to determine how much soil is required.
What are Length, Width, and Height?
Name three of the four core steps in a traditional food supply chain that must operate smoothly before a vegetable reaches your neighborhood.
What are Growing, Harvesting, Packing, or Transport?
Because vertical urban farms are completely indoors, growers use these specialized, energy-saving bulbs to act as artificial suns.
What are LED Grow Lights?
This is the primary business tool an Ag-lete uses to track money spent on seeds and tools versus money earned from selling crops.
What is a Budget?
Mateo uses specialized trucks containing heavy-duty built-in refrigerators to keep perishable food fresh over long distances. This temperature-controlled grid is known by this 2-word phrase.
What is the Cold Chain?