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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snatch block

Agriculture; Animal feed

A block that can be opened on one side to allow a cable or rope to be laid in the block, instead of threading it through from one end.

soluble protein

Agriculture; Animal feed

Estimates the amount of crude protein that will readily dissolve when the feed enters the rumen.

sorghum

Agriculture; Animal feed

A cereal grass used mainly for feedgrain or silage.

soybeans

Agriculture; Animal feed

A legume crop, native to the Orient, used mainly in the United States for high protein feed and oil.

specific gravity (SG)

Agriculture; Animal feed

Also called relative density. As applied to wood, the ratio of the oven-dry weight of a sample to the weight of a volume of water equal to the volume of the sample at a specified ...