Memorize these and recognize 30.6% of all Agriculture clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | corn | 12 | Fed to livestock, it's the USA's most widely produced feed grain, grown on more than 400,000 farms |
| 2 | milk | 4 | The hormone bovine somatotropin is used to increase the production of this |
| 3 | soybeans | 3 | Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest |
| 4 | fallow | 3 | The Bible commands that every 7 years, land should be left unused, lying this 6-letter word |
| 5 | erosion | 3 | Farmers plant trees around farms to create windbreaks as they battle this, attrition of soil by wind |
| 6 | Wheat | 2 | Eating pasta? Thank North Dakota, the USA's biggest producer of the durum type of this, which gives us semolina |
| 7 | rice | 2 | This grain, threshed & unhulled, is called paddy |
| 8 | hydroponics | 2 | In the 1930s, Pan Am grew vegetables on Wake Island for passengers by using this soilless method |
| 9 | fertilizer | 2 | The phosphorus- & potassium-based types of this material help with root development |
| 10 | eggs | 2 | ISE America, specializing in this food product, boasts of having over 5 million layers |
| 11 | cotton | 2 | Bollgard is a genetically modified brand of this plant |
| 12 | cocoa beans | 2 | About 400 of these beans are required to make a pound of chocolate |
| 13 | Brazil | 2 | This country usually produces almost one-third of the world's coffee crop |
| 14 | an herbicide | 2 | Glyphosate is one of the most widely used of these, another word for a weedkiller |
| 15 | almonds | 2 | Growers of this nut, the top crop of California's San Joaquin Valley, had no "joy" in being blamed for using too much water |
| 16 | the stalks | 2 | Before harvest, sugarcane fields undergo short burns to remove leaves, with these sugar-containing stems remaining |
| 17 | crop rotation | 2 | In the 1700s C. Townshend discovered that turnips could be the 4th crop in a 4-field system of this |
| 18 | contour plowing | 2 | This type of tillage that follows the natural shape of the land helps reduce soil erosion |
| 19 | a plow | 2 | The cutting edge of this common farm implement is called a share |
| 20 | drip irrigation | 2 | The type of irrigation seen here, it was used in Israel to make the desert bloom |
| 21 | a baler | 2 | This machine compresses & ties hay into convenient bundles |
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