acres, advances, affect, agrarian, agriculture, ailment, animals, arable, arid, attitude
barn, bison, brawn, breed, bureau, business
capital, cattle, chemicals. chickens, chores, climate, collective, commercial cotter, compounds, conditions, conservation, consume, consumers, cooperative, cotton, cows, crocodiles, crops, cultivation, culture
dairy, degree, demands, dependence, development, disease, disk, diversity, domestication, drainage, drought, ducks. edible
effort, emus, environment, equipment, erosion, experiment, extensive
farm, farmers, feed, fertile, fertilize, fiber, food, forage, fruit trees, fungicide, fungus, fur, furrow
gather, geese, genetic modification, goal, grange, graze, ground, grower
hard, harmful, harness, harvest, hectare, help, heritage, holdings, homestead, horses, husbandry, hybrid
ideal, impoverished, improvement, industry, insects, intensive, irrigation
jaded, joyous
kibbutz, knowledge
labor, laborer, land, lease, livestock, llamas. loan, location
machinery, manage, manure, market price, materials, migrants, milk, mink, moisture, money, mulch
nature, nitrogen, no-till, nutrient
orchards, organic, organization, ostriches, output, oxen
pastoral, pesticide, pests. pineapples, plantation, planter, planting, plow, poultry, produce, productive, products, provisions
quality, quantity, quest, questions rain
raise, ranch, rancher, reap, reform, region, regional, resistant, rotation
sales, seedlings, serf, sharecropper, sharing, sheep, skin, slash-and-burn, soil, sowing, specialize, spurt, squatter, sterilize, strength, stretch, subsistence, sugar cane, sunshine, supply, surplus
techniques, tenant farmer, terrain, territory, theory, till, time, toil, tract, tractor, truck farming, turkeys
undependable, uprooting
variety
water, weather, whim, willingness, wool, worker
yeoman, young, youth
zeal
Farming and Agriculture Lesson Plans and discussion questions:
1. What factors in nature (weather) affect the growth, shrinkage or decay of crops? Explain their consequences
2. Why would someone choose the life of a farmer/rancher? Tell why you selected your choices.
3. Research information about some of the more well known inventors like John Deere, Cyrus McCormick and brothers John and Hiram Pitts. What were their contributions to farming? Who else has made an impact on farming?
4. Define the word LIVESTOCK. Make a list of animals in this category.
5. Define the words CEREALS/GRAINS. Assemble a list of items in this group.
6. Define the word FORAGE CROPS. Name some of them.
7. What does the term food crops mean? Can you name six of them? What are they?
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