Intro to Ag Terms

Raising animals or growing crops to meet the needs of humans.

• Farming

• Agribusiness

• Animal Husbandry

• Poultry

Growing vegetables

• Pomology

• Olericulture

• Veggie Science

• Horticulture

Plants that are grown to produce cloth, such as flax, cotton and bamboo

• Fiber Crops

• Oil Crops

• Forage and Fodder

• Agronomy

This career field designs farm equipment, such as tractors

• Aquaponics

• Agribusiness

• Farming

• Agricultural Engineering

All of the aspects of the agriculture industry that do not occur on farms, but are needed to get ag products to their consumers.

• Agriculture

• Agribusiness

• Aquaculture

• Agritourism

Domesticated birds, usually raised for meat, eggs or feathers. Ex: chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese

• Animal Science

• Stewardship

• Poultry

• Animal Husbandry

These plants are grown specifically to feed animals.  

• Forage and Fodder

• Cereal grains

• Horticulture

• Oil Crops

The practice of using resources sustainably to conserve them for future generations

• Stewardship

• Mr. Stewartship

• Ms. Schantzship

• Nutrient Management

A system in which you grow plants without soil, using water and nutrients only

• Hydroponics

• Aquaculture

• Horticulture

• Plant Science

A system in which both fish and plants are raised, where the plants live off nutrients from the fish and clean their water naturally

• Aquaculture

• Hydroculture

• Horticulture

• Agritourism