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| Agribusiness | Refers to the full scale operations of business in agriculture. Includes interrelationships of farming, farm services, soil science, agronomy, land grant universities, county extension services, state and ferderal experiment stations, etc. |
| Agriculture Education | Prepares studnets for successful careers and a lifetime of informed global agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems |
| Agriculture | Broad industry engaged in the production of plants and animals for food and fier, the provision of ag supplies and services, and the processing, marketing and distriution of agricultural products |
| Animal Science | Agriculture which deals with livestock and the processing of the products derived from them |
| Aquaculture | The broad industry engaged in the production of plants and animals for food and fiber, the provision of agricultural supplies and services, and the processing, marketing, and distribution of agricultural products. |
| Biotechnology | Technology concerning the application of biological and engineering techniques to microorganisms, plants, and animals, sometimes used in the narrower sense of genetic engineering. |
| Career | An occupation or profession followed as one’s lifework. |
| CDE | Activities developed to replicate skills required for future careers. Participants apply the skills and knowledge learned in the classroom to practical experiences. Activities are usually local, regional, and national competitive events open to all FFA members. |
| Commodity | Any unprocessed or partially processed good, as a grain, fruit or vegetable, or precious metal. |
| Crop | Any product of the soil. In a narrow sense, the product of a harvest obtained by labor, as distinguished from natural production or wild growth. |
| Goal | The result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end. |
| Natural Resources | The natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc. |
| Short-Term Goal | A goal lasting a relatively short time. |
| FFA | A national youth organization for students interested in agriculture. The official name is the National FFA Organization. In 1988, the National FFA Organization changed its original name of Future Farmers of America to reflect the expanding career field of Agricultural Education. |
| Food Science | A discipline concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption. |
| Leadership | An act or instance of leading; guidance; direction. |
| Long-Term Goal | A goal involving, maturing, or being in effect after a number of years. |
| Plant | An organism distinguished from the animals in that it takes nutrients entirely in liquid solution, rather than in solid form. |
| Plant Science | Is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development. |
| SAE | Individualized program of study for students interested in learning skills and knowledge related to agriculture. Students develop and implement a real-life project in one of four areas: exploration of agriculture, entrepreneurship, job placement, or research. |
| Aesthetic | Pertaining to a sense of beauty. |
| Agronomy | The specialization of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field-crop production and soil management. The scientific management of land. |
| Arborculture | Cultivation of woody plants, particularly those used for decoration and shade. |
| Biofuel | Broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel derived from recently dead biological material. |
| Botany | The science of plants |
| Cereal | Any grass grown for its edible grain |
| Cultivation | Planting, tending, harvesting, improvement of plants |
| Fiber Crop | Crop grown for its fiber: cotton and flax |
| Floriculture | Cultivation of plants for their flowers |
| Food | Anything that can be taken in by the body and nourishes the tissues and supplies heat |
| Forage Crops | Those plants or parts of plants that are used for feed before maturing or developing seeds (field crops). The most common forage crops are pasture grasses and legumes. |
| Forestry | The sciences, arts, and business practices of crating, conserving, and managing natural resources on lands designated as forests |
| Fruit | Botanically, the matured ovary of a flower and its contents including any external part that is an integral portion of it. |
| Grass | Nonwoody plants with hollow low jointed stems sheathed by narrow leaves, petalless flowers, and fruit resembling grain: includes bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses of lawn, field, and pasture, and the plants used as cereal crops. |
| Horticulture | The science of agriculture that relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including the growing of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and ornamental shrubs and trees. |
| Landscape | To beautify terrain as with plantings of trees, shrubs, and flowering herbs; with ornamental features, such as terraces, rock gardens, bog gardens, pools, walks, drives, etc. |
| Legumes | A family of plants, including many valuable food and forage species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, and alfalfa. With aid of symbiotic bacteria, they can convert nitrogen from the air to build up nitrogen in the soil. |
| Medicinal | Used for medicines |
| Nursery | Any place where plants, shrubs, and trees are grown either for transplanting or as grafting stocks. |
| Oil Seed Crop | Any crop grown primarily for its oil content, such as soybeans, peanuts, cottonseed, and linseed (flaxseed). |
| Orchard | A grove of fruit or nut trees |
| Plant | An organism distinguished from the animals in that it takes nutrients entirely in liquid solution, rather than in solid form. |
| Research | All effort directed toward increased knowledge of natural phenomena and the environment and toward the solution of problems in all fields of science. This includes basic and applied research. Much of the agricultural productivity of the United States is directly the result of applying research. |
| Seed | The embryo of a plant; also kernels of corn, wheat, etc., which botanically are seedlike fruits as they include the ovary wall. |
| Vegetables | Edible parts of an herbaceous plant. |
| Vegetation | Any group or association of plants; the sum of vegetable life; plants in general |
