Ch.7 Barron's / Ch.10 Rubenstein
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| The set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for commercial purposes. It includes activities ranging from seed production, to retailing, to consumption of agricultural products | show 🗑
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| The art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the prupose of human consumption. | show 🗑
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| An agricultural activity associated with raising of domesticated animals, such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. | show 🗑
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| show | Capital-Intensive Agriculture
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| A grass yielding grain for food. | show 🗑
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| show | Chaff
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| A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field. | show 🗑
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| All agricultural activity generated for the purpose of selling, not necessarily for local consumption. | show 🗑
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| show | Crop
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| The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil | show 🗑
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| show | Dairying
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| The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid, unproductive, and desert-like | show 🗑
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| show | Domestification
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| show | Double Cropping
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| An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. | show 🗑
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| Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing; often referred to as factory farms. | show 🗑
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| Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have had their genes altered in a lab for specific purposes, such as disease resistance, increased productivity, or nutritional value, allowing growers greater control, predictability, and efficiencey. | show 🗑
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| show | Green Revolution
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| The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers | show 🗑
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| show | Hunting and Gathering
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| show | Industrial Revolution
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| Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yields | show 🗑
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| show | Labor-Intensive Agriculture
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| show | Livestock Ranching
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| The replacement of human labor with technology or machines | show 🗑
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| show | Mediterranean Agriculture
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| show | Milkshed
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| Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing | show 🗑
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| show | Pastoralism
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| show | Pesticides
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| show | Planned Agricultural Economy
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| A large, frequently foreign-owned piece of land devoted to the production of a single export crop | show 🗑
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| show | Ridge Tillage
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| Process that occurs when soil in arid areas are brought under cultivation through irrigation. In arid climates, water evaporates quickly off the ground surface, leaving salty residue that render the soil infertile | show 🗑
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| The use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost. Plots are then abandoned, and farmers move unto new sites. | show 🗑
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| show | Slash-and-Burn Agriculture
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| show | Specialty Crops
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| show | Subsistence Agricultural Economy
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| A flooded field for growing rice | show 🗑
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| Land that is prepared for agriculture by using the slash-and-burn method | show 🗑
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| Loss of the top fertile layer of soil through erosion. It is a tremendous problem in areas with fragile soils, steep slopes, or torrential seasonal rains | show 🗑
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| The movements of livestock according to seasonal patterns, generally lowland areas in the winter, and highland areas in the summer | show 🗑
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| The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the forms of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land | show 🗑
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| An agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activities in terms of rent. Activities that require intensive cultivation and cannot be transported over great distances pay higher rent to be closer to CBD and vice versa. | show 🗑
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| Seed of a cereal grass | show 🗑
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| A form of subsistence agri¬culture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. | show 🗑
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| The most productive farmland | show 🗑
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| A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. | show 🗑
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| Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, | show 🗑
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| show | Sustainable Agriculture
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| show | Thresh
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| Commercial gardening and fruit farming. | show 🗑
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| show | Vegetation Planting
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| Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth. | show 🗑
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| To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind | show 🗑
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