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Chapter 8 ag.
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| balance of power | a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances |
| Agribusiness | commercial ag. characterized by integration of different steps in the food - processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations |
| cereal grain | a grass yielding grain for food |
| chaff | husks of grain separated fron the seed by threshing |
| combine | a machine that reaps, threashes, and cleans grain while moving over a field |
| commercial agriculture | agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
| crop | grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular session |
| hull | the outer covering of a seed |
| grain | seed of a cereal grain |
| horticulture | the growing of fruits, vegies, and flowers |
| pasture | grass or other plants grown for feeding graxing animals, as well as land used for grazing |