- Agribuisness
- Where family farms are integrated into a large food production industry.
- Agriculture
- Deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain.
- Cereal Grain
- A crop such as oats, wheat, rye, or barley.
- Chaff
- The "husks" of rice.
- Combine
- A machine that reap, threshes, and and cleans the wheat all in one operation instead of three.
- Commercial Agriculture
- Found mostly in MDC's, the production of food primarily for sale off the farm.
- Crop
- Any plant cultivated by humans.
- Crop Rotation
- The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
- Desertfication
- The process that occurs from humans using up all the water in semiarid areas.
- Double Cropping
- A process that produces 2 harvests on one field in one year. Practiced a lot in Asia.
- Grain
- The seed from various grasses, like wheat, corn, oats, barley, rice, millet and others.
- Green Revolution
- The invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970's and 1980's.
- Horticulture
- The growing of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and tree crops.
- Hull
- The outer covering of rice.
- Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
- The term that is used to describe the intensity that farmers in high density areas have to work to grow crops.
- Milkshed
- The ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling.
- Paddy
- The Malay word for wet rice that Europeans and North Americans use even though it is incorrect.
- Pastoral Nomadism
- A form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals.
- Pasture
- Grass or plants grown for feeding grazing animals,as well as land used for grazing.
- Plantation
- A large farm that specializes in one or two crops.
- Prime Agricultural Land
- The most productive farmland.
- Ranching
- The commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area.
- Reaper
- A machine that cuts grain standing in the field.(Permitted large scale wheat production.)
- Ridge Tillage
- A system of planting crops on ridge tops.
- Sawah
- The word for the flooded rice field in the Austronesian language. (Spoken widely in Indonesia, including Java.)
- Seed Agriculture
- The reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization.
- Shifting Cultivation
- The smaller scale of farming in village LDC's, known by slash and burn as well as growing crops on a piece of land until the nutrients are gone then leave it to recover.
- Slash and Burn Agriculture
- Where farmers slash vegetation and burn the debris.
- Spring Wheat
- Wheat that is planted in the spring of places with winters too cold and severe to have winter wheat.
- Subsistence Agriculture
- Usually found in LDC's. The production of food for the farmer's family to eat.
