Agriculture

Agriculture

The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.

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wheat

Agriculture; Animal feed

A cereal crop grown for animal feed and for the production of flour.

wheatfeed

Agriculture; Animal feed

A byproduct of flour milling. It contains fragments of bran, seedcoat and some flour. Rather dusty but a useful animal food.

wobble plate

Agriculture; Animal feed

A rotating canted plate in an axial type piston pump which pushes the pistons into their bores as it "wobbles".

work

Agriculture; Animal feed

The application of force over a definite distance. Work (W) = Force (F) x distance (s). Expressed in joules, ergs, and foot-pounds. The joule is exactly the amount of work done ...

yard

Agriculture; Animal feed

Unit of length equal to 3 feet (91.5 centimetres).

yield

Agriculture; Animal feed

An expression of the amount of product (nominal or actual) that can be manufactured from a given input of raw material. Also referred to as product recovery.