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absentee landlord
adenine

Adoption of the Tractor

aerator
Age Structure

agricultural biotechnology
Agricultural Change in the 20th Century
Agricultural Companies links
Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural Indices links
Agricultural Organizations links
agricultural revolution
Agricultural Societies, Early Settled
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
allele
alluvial aquifer
American Saddlebred

Origin and Characteristics

Breeds of Livestock

Angora goats
Angus

Origin and Characteristics

Breeds of Livestock

Animal Agriculture's role in feeding the world
Animal Contributions to Society

Health

Other Contributions

Power and Work

Prestige

Recreation

Religion

Animal Contributions (cont.)

Shelter

Tools and Utensils

War
Animal Husbandry
Animal Science defined
Animal Science and Livestock links
animal waste facilities
Annual Livestock Inventories
antibiotics

Antisense RNA

antisense, definition
Appaloosa

Origin and Characteristics

Breeds of Livestock

Aquaculture

Aquaculture (AgriMania)

Definition

Characteristics

Management Systems
aquifer
Arabian

Origin and Characteristics

Breeds of Livestock

artesian aquifer
Ascomycetes

Powdery Mildew
available soil water
Avian development
ax

Ayrshire

Origin and Characteristics

Breeds of Livestock

B

Balancing rations
Bass
Beef Cattle

Anatomy of a Beef Cow

Backgrounding Operation

Beef Industry

Breeds

Feedlot Operation

Leading Countries

Leading States

Management Systems

Purebred Operation

Skeleton of a Beef Cow

Species Characteristics

Yearly Calendar

Beef Cattle Breeds

Belted Galloway

Blonde D'Aquitaine

Hereford, Horned

Hereford, Polled

Santa Gertrudis

Scotch Highland

Byproducts
Billy Goat

Biodiversity
biological revolution
Biomass

biomass, definition
biomass derived fuels
Biomass Energy and Fuels
biotechnology
Biotechnology links
birth rate
Black Death
Blood System (Wool Grading)
Boar

bonanza farms
Borers (Insect)
Borlaug, Norman

botulism
Bovine

Brahman
breeding
breeding cycle
breeding records

Breeding Systems
Breeds

Beef Cattle Breeds

Belted Galloway

Blonde D'Aquitaine

Hereford, Horned

Hereford, Polled

Santa Gertrudis

Scotch Highland

Dairy Cattle Breeds

Milking Shorthorn

Horse Breeds

Horse Breeds (cont.)

Pony of America

Poultry Breeds

New Hampshire Red

Rhode Island Red

Sheep Breeds

Meat Breeds

North Country Cheviot

Wool Breeds

Dual Purpose Breeds

Other Breeds

border Leicester

English Leicester

Fat-tailed China

Scottish Blackface

Swine Breeds

breeds of livestock
Broiler Industry
Brown Swiss
brush harrow
bST (bovine Somatotropin)
BTU
bubonic plague
buffalo

buffer strip
bulbourethral glands

Bull
Bureau of Standards
bushel
by-products

C

Caloric and protein intakes/person/day
Calorie
Calving

Capitalization
Capper-Volstead Act of 1922
carbon dioxide
carcinogen
Careers in the Livestock Industry
Carp
Carpet-wool
carrying capacity
Cashmere goats
castration
Catfish
cattle drives
Cattle, Hog and Sheep Cycles
Cattle, Domestication
Cattle Grades
cDNA
cellulose
chaff
channel capacity
Charolais
Chemical and Biological Revolutions
Chemical Revolution
chemical energy
chemical revolution
Chester White
Chianina
Chick

Chickens, Domestication
Chicken

child mortality rate
child-survival rates
cholesterol
Classification of Livestock
Clean Water Act
Climate/Weather links
clods

clone
Clothing, Animal Contributions
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
codon
colleges of agriculture
Colleges of Agriculture links
Columbia

combine - Definition
Combine

Commercial grain farming
Commercial grazing
commercial logging
commercial pond

commodity (market) value
Common Uses for Land

commons
Companies, Agricultural links
Concentration
confined aquifer
confinement
Conifer

Conservation Compliance
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
Consequences of Changing Farm Structure
Conserving Soil Resources
Consumer Perceptions of Food Safety
Contemporary Examples of Land Use
construction standards
contour farming
contraceptives
conversion efficiencies
Cooperative Extension Service
copulation
corn - definition
corn

Corn:Hog Ratio
corn pickers
corn products

cornucopian thesis
corporate farm
Corporate Farming in California
Corriedale
cotton

cover crops
Cow

see beef cattle; dairy cattle

Skeleton

Cow/Calf Operation
cropland
crop lien system of credit
Crops/Plant Science links
crop rotation
crown gall
crude birth rate
crude death rate
cryptorchid
cultivating tobacco

cultivation
Curing Tobacco

Current Issues in Agriculture links
Cutting Hay

Cutting Tobacco

D

Dairy Cattle

dairy cattle, defined

Dairy Cattle Byproducts

Management Systems

Species Characteristics
Dairy Cattle Breeds

Milking Shorthorn

Dairying
Dairy goats
Dark-Fired Tobacco
Decidous

deep percolation
Defoliating Insects
deforestation
dehydration
Delaney Clause
De minimus risk
desertification
developing nation
Diffusion of the Tractor
Disease Prevention
distillation
DNA

DNA Structure
DNA Purification
Doctrine of Appropriation
Doctrine of Riparian Rights
Domestication
domesticated, defined
Dorset
doubling time
Draft Horse Breed
Draft Horses

draft stock
drain
Drake

drill
drought-resistant plants
dry cell battery
dry farming
drying of grains
dry milling process
Dual Purpose Sheep

E

E. coli
Egg
Ehrlich, Paul

ejaculation
Electric Milker

Eminent Domain, Right of
energy
Energy and the Environment
Energy and the Enviroment/Ecology links
Energy Flow in Ethanol Fuel Production
English Enclosure Acts
entropy
environment
environmental degradation
enzyme
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

eroded lands
erosion
ethanol
Ethanol fuel
Ethanol Fuels, Environmental Impact
Ethanol Fuels Production from Corn
Evaluating feeds
evaporation

evapotranspiration

Ewe

F

Factors Limiting Animal Product Supply
Factors affecting livestock production
Fair Packaging & Labeling Act
fallow
fallowing land

family farm
Family Farms on the Great Plains
famines
family planning
farm
farm machines
farm mechanization
farm mortgage
Farm Security Act
Farm Size and Farm Ownership Patterns
Farmall
Farrow to finish operation
Farrowing

Fattening Feeder Lamb Production
Feather Meal

fecal coliform bacteria
Federal Groundwater Regulations
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Federal Management of Land Uses
Federal Regulation of Land Use
fed lamb
feeder calf
feeder lamb
Feeder Lamb Production
feeder pig
Feeder Pig Production
feeder steer or heifer
feeding
feeding records

feedlots
Feeds, Evaluating
feed stock
Female Anatomy

female infanticide
fermentation
fertility
fertility rates
fertilization
fertilizer
fertilizer and chemical storage and
loading facilities
fiber
field crop production
filter strip
financial records

Fine-wool
Fine Wool Breeds - Sheep

Finishing Feeder Pigs
First Law of Thermodynamics
fish catch

fisheries
Fish Production
Fish Flakes

Fish Grading
flail
Flavr Savr tomato
flight space
Flue-cured Tobacco
flywheel
Foal

Food Additives Amendment (1958)
Food, Agriculture, Conservation & Trade Act (1990)
Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act (1990)
Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act Links (1990)
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
food aid
Food, Animal Contributions to
Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA)
food deficiency diseases
Food Production (population issues)
food pyramid
food processing
food quality
Food Related Risks
Forest Resources (population issues)
Food Safety

definition

Consumer Perceptions

Scientific Perceptions
Food Safety/Nutrition links
food sufficiency
force
forest
forest production
fossil fuels
freshwater
fruit - definition
Fruit

Fruit Pests
fruit and vegetable production
Fungi
furrow

G

Gander

gang plow
gene
Gene Expression

gene expression, definition
General Agricultural links
Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS)
genetic code
genetic engineering
genetic gain
genetic improvement
genetics
Genetics box (BB X Bb)
genotype
germ
GI tract of the Monogastric
GI tract of the Ruminant

global warming
gluten
Goats, Angora
Goats, Domestication of
Goldfish
Goose

Government Agencies links
Grades of swine
Grades of cattle
Grades of sheep
Grades of Livestock
grain/cereal production
grain combines

grain drill
grain elevator - definition
Grain Elevator
Grain farming, commercial

Grain mixed farming
grain storage
grasshopper plagues
grasslands
grass waterways
gravitational water
grazing capacity
grazing fees
grazing herds
Great American Desert
Great Plains, Settlement of
Great Plains

Great Plagues, The
Greenhouse and Floriculture Pests
Green Revolution, The

Green Revolution, Definition
greenspace
groundwater
groundwater monitoring
groundwater pollution
Groundwater in Kentucky, Introduction to
Groundwater Regulations, Federal
Groundwater Regulation Programs, Kentucky
Growth and Development
growth rate
guanine

Guernsey
gullying

H

Hampshire (Breed of Sheep)
Hampshire (Breed of Swine)
hand broadcast
Hanoverian
Hardin, Garrett
harvest
harvester
Hatch Act of 1887
Hatchery
Hatching
hay - definition

Hay

hazardous waste
Health Management Systems
Health, Animal Contributions to
heath
health records

hectare
hedge
herbicides
hemicellulose
Hen

herders
heritability
Highlights of Mechanization
Historical Examples of Soil Erosion
History of Animal Ag. in the U.S.
History of Animal Agriculture
hoe
Hogs, see Swine
holding capacity
Holstein
Homestead Act of 1862
hoppers
hormones
Hormone Regulation
Horned Herefords
Horses

Definition

Anatomy

Anovulatory Period

Breeds

Domestication

Fetal Development

Pregnancy

Parturition

Parturition

Species Characteristics

Yearly Calendar
Horse Breeds

Pony of America

hothouse lamb
Housing Tobacco

I

Incubator
individual property rights
induced cryptorchid
industrialization of agriculture
infant mortality rate
infection
infiltration
infrastructure
Insects

Diversity and Classification

External Anatomy and Morpology

Legs

Mouthparts

Antennae

Wings

Internal Physiology and Behavior

Development and Metamorphosis

Reproductive Potential and Environmental

Resistance

Population Dynamics

Disturbance and Ecosystem Components

Pest Managemet Concepts

Biological Control

Integration
Internal Combustion Engine

internal combustion engine, definition
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International Harvester
Ireland, the Potato and Population Trends
irradiation
irrigation
irrigation ditches
itinerant threshing rigs
IUD

J

jerky
Jersey
J.I. Case Companies
John Deere

K

karst aquifer
Kentucky Division of Water
Kentucky Groundwater Regulation Programs
Kid
Kidding
kinetic energy

L

Lactation
Lamb

Land Capability
land grant college
Land, Public
Land Use
land use capacity
land use conflict
land use planning
Land Resources (population issues)
Land Resources
Land Use links
Land Use, Historical Perspectives
Landrace
Layer Industry
leaching
Leaf vegetables

Leafminers and Gallmakers
legumes - definition
Legumes

lentils
levee
Limousin
lifeboat ethics
life expectancy

ligation
Light Horses

Light-cured Tobacco
limestone
limestone geologies
liming
limits thesis
Live Haul Truck

Breeding and Genetics

Disease and the Body

Health Management

Industries and Products

Inventories, composition of

Inventories over time

Leading Countries

U.S Producing areas

World Producing Areas
livestock production
Lobster
log

logging
Long-wool
Long Wool Breeds - Sheep

M

Male Anatomy

malnourishment
malnutrition
Malthus, Thomas

manmade waterway
manure
marbling

Mare

mariculture
market hog
Market classes of livestock

Cattle

Sheep

Swine
market value
Marketing, Aquaculture
Mature wheat

McCormick Reaper
meat

meat consumption
Meat goats
Meat Type Breeds - Sheep
mechanical revolution
mechanization
Mechanization, Arguments for and Against
Medium-wool
Medium Wool Sheep Breeds
Meiosis
Merino

messenger RNA
microinjection
Micron System (Wool Grading)
migrants
migration
Milk and Milk products
Milk Parlor

Milk Processing Plant

Milk Holding Tank
Milk Processing
milk-fed lamb
milk production
Milking Shorthorn
milling of corn
mineral leasing
Mitosis
Monogastric GI Tract
monorchid
Morgan
Morrill Act of 1862
mortality
mortality rates
mule-drawn plow
mules
multiple cultivations
mutton

N

National Institute of Standards and Technology
national population policies
native grasses
natural (food safety)
natural decrease
natural habitat
natural increase
natural resources
net migration rate
nitrates
nitrogen oxides
nitrogen uptake
Nomadic herding
Non- Arable Land

Non-Edible Plant Parts
nonconsumptive value
Nonrenewable Resources

nonrenewable resources, defined
nonpoint source pollution
Non-ruminant - Horse
Non-ruminant - Swine
nucleotide
Nursery

Nutrients

nutrients, defined
nutrition

O

Oomycetes

Phytophthora sojae

Blue Mold
Orchard

Ordinance of 1787
Organizations, Agricultural links
orphan land

ovariectomy
ovaries

overfishing
overgrazing
over-harvesting
overpopulation
over-watering of fields
ova, ovum

P

Paint Horse
pasteurization
pasture
pasture animal production
pathogen
penis

per capita dietary energy
per capita energy use
per capita gross domestic production
percolation
percolation rates
pest control
pesticides
pesticide standards
pest resistant plants
phenotype
phosphates
photosynthesis
Pigs, see Swine
plasmid
Plasmodiophoromycota
plow design
pneumonic plague
Polled Herefords
Population

Recent World Trends
population densities
population distribution
population explosion
population growth rate
Population links
population momentum
population policy
population pyramid
pork
Posilac
potato
potato blights
potential energy
Poultry

Definition

Breeds

Products

Leading Countries

Management Systems

Poultry Industry

Species Characteristics

Poultry Breeds

New Hampshire Red

Rhode Island Red

power
Power and Work, Animal Contributions to
preservation
preservative
Prestige, Animal Contributions to
Principles of Thermodynamics
Private Property Rights
Probability
Production of Recombinant DNA
Production of Ethanol Fuels from Corn
Production Areas for Food, Feed and Forests
Professionalization
proof (as in ethanol)
Property Values
Property Rights

property rights, defined
prostate
protein
Public Lands
public property rights

Q

Q

Quality of the Natural Environment (population)
Quarter Horse

R

Rambouillet
range improvements
ratchet effect
rate of natural increase
recharge area
recombinant DNA
Recombinant DNA Production
records
recreation
Recreation, Animal Contributions to
rectum

Red Fifehard spring wheat
Regulating Food Safety
Religion, Animal Contributions to
remediation
renewable energy resources
Replication

replication, defined
Reproduction, Livestock

Female Anatomy

Functions of the Female

Functions of the Male

Male Anatomy

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
resource depletion
resource value

Restriction Endonuclease "digestion" of DNA
restriction endonuclease
ribosomes
rice
Right of Eminent Domain
ripening
Risk Assessment (Food Safety)
risk benefit
RNA
roasting pig
Role of Animal Agriculture in Society
Role of Animal Products in a Balanced Diet
Rooster

root crops
Roots

Ruminant - Cow
Ruminant - Sheep
Ruminant GI Tract

Runners

Rural Communities
Rural Depopulation

rural depopulation, defined

S

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
salinization
Salmon
Salmonella
salt buildup
salt meat
Santa Gertrudis
sawmill

Scientific Perceptions of Food Safety
scrotum

scythe

section
Second Law of Thermodynamics
sediment
sedimentation
seed or seeding
seed drill
seeder
Seigning Net

selection
self-propelled combine
self-propelled equipment
semen
seminal vesicles
seminiferous tubules
separator
septicemic plague
setting tobacco

Settlement of the Great Plains in America
sharecropping
Sharecropping in the South
Shearing machine

Breeds

Domestication

Grades

Leading States

Management Systems

Purebred Operation

Sheep Industry

Species Characteristics

Yearly Calendar
Sheep Breeds

Meat Breeds

North Country Cheviot

Wool Breeds

Dual Purpose Breeds

Other Breeds

border Leicester

English Leicester

Fat-tailed China

Scottish Blackface

Shelter, Animal Contributions to
shocks of wheat

Shorthorn
Shrimp
sickle
Simon, Julian
sinkholes
sinking streams
Skeletons

Simmental
skidder

slash-and-burn cultivators
slaughter steer or heifer
Sounds
Smith-Hughes act of 1917
Smith-Lever Cooperative Extension Act (1914)
sodbuster
soil conservation
Soil Conservation Practices
soil erosion
soil fertility
soil root zone
Southdown
Sow

sowing
Soy protein concentrates
Soy flour and grits
Soy protein isolates
Soybean products

Soybean oil products

Specialization
Species involved
sperm
spermatic cord
Spinning System (Wool Grading)
springs
spring-toothed harrow
squatters
stag
Stallion

Standardbred
staples
starch
State by State Agricultural Listings links
steam engine
steeping
sterilization
stocker calf
straw
strip cropping
Stripping Tobacco

storage of grain crops
stubble
stubble mulch tillage
Sucking Insects
Suffolk
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (1977)
surface runoff
surface water
Sustainable Agriculture

sustainable agriculture, defined
swampbuster
Swine

Definition

Breeds

Domestication

Grades

Leading States

Management Systems

Purebred Operation

Swine Industry

Species Characteristics

Yearly Calendar
Swine Breeds

switch grass
symphasis of pelvis

synthetic pesticides

T

taking
tandem disk
Taphrinales
technological advance
terrace system
testicles

tenant farming
Tennessee Walking Horse
Technological Treadmill
thermal energy
thermodynamics
Thermodynamics, Laws of
Thermodynamics, Principles of
Thoroughbred
three-disc plow
thresher
thresher/separator/ winnower machine
thymine

timber
timber revenues
Tobacco Warehouse

Tobacco, topping

tomato plant
Tools and Utensils, Animal Contributions to
topsoil
Toxicity links
toxins
tractor

Trakehner

Transcription

transcription, defined
Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)
Transformation

transformation, defined
transgenic
Translation

translation, defined
transpiration

transportation (of grain crops)
Trees

triage
Turf Insects

Beetles

Billbugs and Ants

Cicada Killer Wasps

Cutworms

June Beetles and

Black Turfgrass Grubs

Plant Sap Suckers

Webworms

White Grubs
Turkeys, Domestication
twine binder
Types of feed
Trout
Tubers

U

undernourishment
uracil
urban development
urbanization
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
urethra
use value

V

V-net

vas deferens
vasectomy
veal calf
Vegetables
Vegetable Pests
Vertical Integration
Vineyard

W

wage labor
wagons
walking plow
Walleye
War, Animal Contributions to
waterlogging
Water Quality and Aquifers
Water Quality and the Environment
Water Quality Incentives Program
water ranching
Water Resources (population issues)
Water Resources (land use issues)
watershed
water table
waterways
Wealth of Nation and Animal Agriculture
weed resistant plants
weeding
well
wetlands

Wetlands Reserve Program
wet milling process
wheat

Wheat Processing

Blood Grade System

Spinning Count System

Micron System
Wool

wool processing

Wool Production, Intro to

wool products

work
Worker Productivity
Worker Efficiency
World Bank
world grain harvest
world meat production
World Population Trends

X

Y

yeast
Yellow Perch
Yorkshire

Z

zero population growth
zero risk
zero tolerance
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
zoning
Zoning
Zoological Classification