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Agriculture for Secondary Schools
Drilling Ensiling
a method of planting where seeds are to put forage into a silo to preserve
spread in a narrow furrow (a small it as silage
trench) and then covered with soil
Enterprise
Drought-tolerant crops any part or stage of the animal or
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that can survive with little water, crop production value chain that is
making them suitable for dry areas. carried out for profit
Examples include sorghum and finger
millet Ethanol
a type of alcohol that can be made
Drug from plants such as sorghum and used
a substance used to treat an illness, as fuel
relieve a symptom or modify a
chemical process in the body for a Evaporation
specific purpose the process of water turning into
vapour and disappearing
Dry peas (field peas)
peas that are grown until the seeds Evisceration
are hard and dry, then harvested for removal of the internal organs and
storage or sale legs before it is washed and inspected
Drying off Feed
stopping milking a lactating cow an act of giving food, especially to
livestock. It also means an act of
Ear notching animals taking food. It may also
cutting small marks in the edge of mean the food given to livestock
the ear in set patterns to permanently
identify animals Feeder
a container for giving food to animals
Ear tagging
attaching a plastic or metal tag with Feedlotting or feedlot farming
a number to the animal’s ear to tell a system where cattle are kept in
it apart from others confined areas and fed a high-energy
diet of grains to rapidly increase
Economic profitability their weight and fat content before
the ability of a farming business to slaughter, a practice designed to
make money after covering the costs maximise efficiency and meat
of production; this includes knowing production
which crops/animals are most likely
to provide a good income Feedstuff
Emergence time any material used as a feed, especially
the time it takes for seedlings to for livestock
appear above the ground
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