Four Areas of Production Agriculture

What is agriculture?

• The science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees or shrubs

• The products made from milk of sheep, goat, and cattle

• The science, art, and business of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock useful to people

• The domestic animals kept for use on a farm for sale or profit

What is horticulture?

• The products made from milk of sheep, goat, and cattle

• The domestic animals kept for use on a farm for sale or profit

• The art or science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees or shrubs

• The science, art, and business of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock useful to people

What are crops?

• agricultural commodities that are grown and harvested, often to be changed into another product or used as animal feed

• The science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees or shrubs

• The products made from milk of sheep, goat, and cattle

• The domestic animals kept for use on a farm for sale or profit

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What are livestock?

• The domestic animals kept for use on a farm for sale or profit

• The products made from milk of sheep, goat, and cattle

• The science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees or shrubs

• The science, art, and business of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock useful to people

What is dairy?

• The science, art, and business of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock useful to people

• The science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees or shrubs

• The domestic animals kept for use on a farm for sale or profit

• The products made from milk of sheep, goat, and cattle

What is defined as something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage (i.e. processed or resold)

• Product

• livestock

• commodity

• export