My Vocabulary #1

• Depreciate: to lessen the value.
• Ergonomics: Human engineering
• Soil Analysis: Test of a soil sample to determine nutrient and contaminated content, composition, and other characteristics such as acidity or pH level.
• Soil Biota, Soil Fauna: collective term for all the organisms living within the soil.
• Crop Emergence: Defined as a function of the effective daily temperature sum since sowing date. It is based on the thermal time accumulated between a base temperature and a maximum temperature.
• Furrow: A narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
• Forage Crops: Plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.
• Calcareous Grassland: (Alkaline Grassland) an ecosystem associated with thin basic soil, such as that on chalk and limestone down-land.
• Agricultural Yield: Refers to both the measure of the yield of a crop per unit are of land cultivation, and the seed generation of the plant itself.
• Farmstead: Term referring to a farm, including its land and buildings.
• Loam: Soil composed of sand, silt, and clay in relatively even proportions.
• Agriculture: The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. 
• Aquaculture: The rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food.
• Fluctuation: An irregular rising and falling in number or amount; a variation.
• Greenhouse: A glass building in which plants are grown that need protection from cold weather.
• Horticulture: The art or practice of garden cultivation and management.
• Livestock: Farm animals regarding as an asset.
• Agribusiness: Commercial agriculture combined with characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. 
• Agricultural Origin: Agricultural health.
• Animal Husbandry: An agricultural activity associated with the raising of domesticated animals, such as cattle, horses, sheep, and goats.