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Traditional farming does not use insecticides as today's farms do. This means that the plants are at more risk of suffering diseases; also traditional farming wasn't very efficient as no soil enrichment products were used and no modern technologies either. Usually traditional farming means more unreliability and less efficiency, which increases the cost.

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Planting hay is quite simple, all you need is a tractor and a seed planter. This is a machine that attaches to the Power take off (PTO) on the tractor and will evenly dispurse the seeds. Hay does not need the amount of tractor work other crops do, most hay feilds are natural grasses that are already growing (however, farmers do add in a variety of grasses), hay fields do not need to be sprayed or cutivated pre or post planting.

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You can order them from Karen's shop over the phone or you can buy them from Vesta's shop at 4:00pm- 6:00pm!! <3

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Wheat can vary from 10,000 to 20,000 kernels per pound, but if one assumes the middle rate at 15,000 per pound, then there would be about 900,000 kernels in a bushel.

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It varies due to ear size, length, weight, and type of corn, but a decent average is about 1.6 bushels ear corn to make one bushel of shelled.

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Main crops in Lebanon include Cereals (mainly wheat and barley), fruits and vegetables, olives, grapes, and tobacco..

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Easiest and quickest way: purchase a moisture-testing meter and follow the instructions.

Less expensive way, but takes longer: weigh a sample as accurately as possible, then heat at a temperature high enough to drive out the moisture, but not so high as to start to oxidize or burn the corn. Weigh the sample again, then put the numbers into the formula below:

Grain moisture content (in % pts.) = ((Beginning weight of sample minus ending weight) divided by beginning weight) times 100

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There isn't too much you can do once top soil is lost but to replace it, but first address the erosion problem. Soil amendments may raise your crop quality some but nothing works better than good soil.

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About 12 billion pounds annually. It depends on the size and grade of the "spuds", of course, but that is somewhere around 20 billion individual potatoes.

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Potatoes does not have spores.

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Sugar cane is a tall perennial grass, originally native to tropical Southeast Asia.

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It means that a farm specializes in growing a single type and/or species crop plant. Another word for this term is "Monoculture".

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The term "phylum" is rarely used by botanists, people who study plants. They usually refer to "divisions". Anthophytais the division, or phylum, of corn. Anthophytes are flowering, fruiting plants which have a vascular system with vessels.

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Some advantages of dairy farming is that you can insure the animal if it dies and can receive regular advanced payments.

Some farms use parlors which make the milking process go faster.

Using Milkers instead of by hand.

By: kenzie N. klein:)

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http://www.biocompost.org/en/introd.shtml

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You might be able to grow wild rice if you can get the proper environment set up for it, but regular Asian rice is probably not possible without a greenhouse setup.

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Medium green and leafy, until it starts to produce seed, when it begins to get "branchy", with yellow flowers that produce the seed. See the related link below for more information on Black Mustard, Brassica nigra, wich is commonly grown in many parts of the world.

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The number one cash crop in Tennessee right now is Marijuana. After that is Soybean and Hay.

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its organic and inorganic

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yes, unlike plants that require photosynthesys to make their food, mushrooms are decomposers and get their food from rotting vegitation.

Mushrooms can and do grow well in absolute darkness. However, they don't normally grow underneath the surface of the soil like a potato or carrot does. They still grow at the surface of the material upon which they are feeding, such as a rotting log, grass thatch, or crop residue left on the soil surface.

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Skein

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Gingham

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Lettuce can be grown in a garden almost anywhere in the US, but by far the majority of commercial lettuce is grown in the Salinas Valley on California's central coast.

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high up in the mountains