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(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
The National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Concept Space (abbreviated NALT) is a controlled vocabulary of terms related to agricultural, biological, physical and social sciences. [1] NALT is used by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) to annotate peer reviewed journal articles for NAL’s bibliographic citation database, AGRICOLA , PubAg ...
Pages in category "Agricultural terminology" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aboiteau;
Sheepwalk – an area of rough grazing occupied by a particular flock or forming part of a particular farm. Shepherd – a stockperson or farmer who looks after sheep while they are in the pasture. Shepherding – the act of shepherding sheep, or sheep husbandry more generally. Shornie – a freshly shorn sheep. [8]
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least ...
The USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) has developed a farm typology, or farm classification, that divides the 2.1 million U.S. farms into 8 mutually exclusive and relatively homogeneous groups: limited resource farms; retirement farms; residential/lifestyle farms; farming occupation/lower sales; farming occupation/high sales; large family ...
Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.
Organic farming – form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control. Pig farming – Poultry farming; Sericulture – silk farming, the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk. Sheep husbandry – specifically dealing with the raising and breeding of domestic sheep.