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General term for the business that provide the vast array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry

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Agribusiness

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The place from which agriculture, or a form of agriculture originates

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Agricultural hearth

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The purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber

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Agriculture

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The intentional growth of herds of animals by humans, rather than wild growth in nature

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Animal domestication

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A form of technology that uses living organisms, usually genes, to modify products, to make or modify plants and animals, or to develops other micro- organisms for specific purposes

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Biotechnology

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Cereal grains include corn, oats, barley, etc… grains are the harvested seed portions of cereal crops; some are for human consumption, many for animal consumption

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Cereal grains

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Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing

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Chaff

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A machine that reaps threshes and cleans grain while moving over a field

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Combine

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Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm

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Commercial agriculture

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A grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season

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Crop

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The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

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Crop rotation

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Degradation of land especially in semi- arid areas primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting animal grazing and tree cutting

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Desertification

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A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages

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Dispersed settlement pattern

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Harvesting twice a year from the same field

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Double cropping

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A crop or livestock system in which land quality or extent is more important that capital or labor inputs in determining output

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Extensive agriculture

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Dating back 10,000 years, the first agricultural revolution achieved plant domestication and animal domestication

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First agricultural revolution

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Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods

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Genetically modified organisms

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Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology especially new high yield seeds and fertilizers

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Green revolution

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The cultivation of plants

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Horticulture

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The outer covering of a seed

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Hull

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A form of subsistence agriculture from which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land

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Intensive subsistence agriculture

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Developed by Wladimir Koppen, A system for classifying the world climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation

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Koppen climactic classification system

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The raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other by products such as leather and wool

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Livestock ranching

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Non-substance crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco

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Luxury crops

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Specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry summer Mediterranean climate prevails

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Mediterranean agriculture

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The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied

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Milkshed

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Dependence on a single agricultural commodity

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Monoculture

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Approach to farming and ranching that avoid the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs

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Organic agriculture

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Malay word for we rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah

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Paddy

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A form of substance agriculture based on herding animals

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Pastoral nomadism

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Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals as well as land used for grazing

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Pasture

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The intentional planting of seeds or root plants by humans, rather than wild growth in nature

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Plant domestication

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Production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organize to produce a cash crop; almost all plantations were established with the tropics; in recent decades, many have been divided into smaller holding or re-organized as cooperatives

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Plantation agriculture

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A machine that cuts grain standing in a field

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Reaper

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Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the roots, or the cutting from the plants

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Root crops

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A flooded field for growing rice

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Sawah

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Dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, it witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce

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Second agricultural revolution

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Crop that is reproduce by cultivating the seeds of the plants

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Seed crops

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Cultivation of the crops and tropical forest clearings in which the force vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning; he’s clearings are usually abandoned after a few years in favor of newly cleared forest land; also known as the slash and burn agriculture

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Shifting cultivation

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Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris

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Slash and burn agriculture

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Wheat planted in the spring in harvest in the late summer

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Spring wheat

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Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and Lowe technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade

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Subsistence farming

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Currently in progress, the third agricultural revolution has as it principal orientation the development of GMO’s

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Third agricultural revolution

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Farming methods that preserve long term productivity of land in minimizes pollution, typically by rotating soil restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides

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Sustainable agriculture

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A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning

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Swidden

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To be out grain from Stocks by trampling it

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Thresh

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The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastors

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Transhumance

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A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit making economy; a process of spatial competition allocates various farming activities into your rings around a central market city with profit earning capability the determining force and how far a crop locate from the market

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Von Thunen Model

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Rice planted on a dryland in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth

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Wet rice

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To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind

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Winnow

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Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in early summer

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Winter wheat

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Also called the public land survey the system was used by the US land office survey to parcel land west of the appellation Mountains the system device land into a series of rectangular parcels

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Rectangular survey system

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A rectangular land division scheme designed by Thomas Jefferson to disperse settlers evenly across farmlands of the US interior

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Townships and range the system

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A system of land surveying east of the appellation Mountains it is a system that relies on descriptions of land ownership and natural features such as dreams or trees because of the imprecise nature of metes and brown serving the US land office survey a band in the technique in favor of the rectangular survey system

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Metes and bounds system

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Distinct regional approach to land surveying found in the Canadian maritimes parts of callback Louisiana and Texas whereby Landis divided into neural parcels stretching back from rivers roads or canals

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Long lot serving system

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