Lab One Flashcards
Cereal Crops
Grasses that produce edible stems, Store energy in there seeds as starches
Grain Crops
The harvested portion of grasses, legumes and other crops.
Small Grains
Applied to wheat, oats, rye, and barley, smaller then corn
Row Crops
Grown in wider row (corn soybeans)
Pulses
Legumes grown for there edible high protein seeds (peas legumes beans)
Forages
crops whose vegetative parts (stems leaves and attached seeds or grains)
Hay
forage dried to 20%
Fiber crops
Crops grown for their fibers used for clothing rope and paper.
silage
forage harvested at 50-80% moisture and stored in air.
Root and tuber crops
Crops harvested for their underground storage organs that are rich and starch.
Cover crops
Crops grown to prevent soil eroision
companion crops
Crops seeded with a small seeds legume to provide erosion control
Green Manure crops
Legumes or grasses that are incorporated into the soil while vegetative with the purpose of adding nutrients to the soil or enhancing soil
Recreational turf crops
Crops used for lawns or other things
Sugar crops
Sugar is obtained (corn sugarcane)