In the upper South, crops such as tobacco, wheat, and corn were commonly grown. In the Deep South, cash crops like cotton, rice, sugarcane, and indigo were predominantly cultivated due to the region's more favorable climate and conditions for their growth.
Limestone is important to agriculture because it helps to improve soil quality. It is commonly used as a soil amendment to neutralize acidic soils, which can be detrimental to plant growth. Limestone also provides essential nutrients like calcium and magnesium to the soil, promoting healthy plant growth and improving crop yields.
The crops sometimes called the Three Sisters that were successfully grown by the mound builders in Mississippi were corn, beans, and squash. These crops were cultivated together using a technique called companion planting, where corn provided a structure for the beans to climb, while the beans provided nitrogen to the soil and helped support the corn. Squash was grown as ground cover, which helped prevent weeds and retain moisture.
1. Petroleum
2. coal products
3. food processing
4. paper products
5. chemicals
6. oil
7. packages foods
8. wood products
Paid farm workers are the labor force which serve as a human means of production in agriculture. They are hired externally as opposed to the typically utilized family members.
Meat and animal products: goat, pork, duck, deer, fish, milk, butter
vegetable's: beans, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, chick peas,
fruit: apples, pomegranites, figs, grapes, apricots, pears, dates, melon
other: beer, wine,milk, oils, water,
The presence of excess moisture promotes mold making the hay unuseable for livestock.
25 pounds is equal to a bushel of peas that are still hulled.
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We grow manly cotton and tabbaco but in home gardens everything that ca take the heat and the cold of winter
Buzz pollination and nectar robberies are ways that carpenter bees help farmers pollinate such crops as beans, dogroses, eggplants, maracujas, passion fruits, and tomatoes. The insects in question (Xylocopinae subfamily member) employ the buzzing sounds that they emit to cause dried pollen to drop out of plants so that pollination is more efficient and widespread for the farm in question. They also perfect nectar-robbing whereby they remove excess nectar -- that otherwise may attract ant swarms -- from such long-tubed flowers as penstemons and salvias by "drilling" a hole in floral bases for "drip-sipping."
Pest control is the main benefit of crop rotation. If a farmer plants one type of crop and swaps it out when it starts to attract a certain type of bug it will be awhile before more are attracted to the new plant
Crop rotation can also be used to replenish nutrients in the soil. For example, a crop that takes a lot of nitrogen can be planted one year, and the next year one that replenishes nitrogen can be planted.
The interior plains area of the US is excellent for growing crops. This is why it is sometimes referred to as "the Breadbasket of the US." Much of the nation's corn, soybeans, and wheat, the top three crops, are grown in this area.