Agriculture can be divided into a few large groups:
Crop Production
edit- Cereals or Basic Grains: Oats, Wheat, Barley, Rye, Triticale, Corn, Sorghum, Millet, Quinoa and Amaranth
- Oilseeds: Canola, Rapeseed, Flax, Sunflowers, Corn and Hempseed
- Pulse Crops: Peas (all types), field beans, faba beans, lentils, soybeans, peanuts and chickpeas.
- Hay and Silage (Forage crop) Production
- Vegetable crops or Olericulture: Crops utilized fresh or whole (wholefood crop, no or limited processing, i.e., fresh cut salad); (Lettuce, Cabbage, Carrots, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Herbs, etc.)
- Spices
- Tree Fruit crops: apples, oranges, stone fruit (i.e., peaches, plums, cherries)
- Tree Nut crops: Hazlenuts. walnuts, almonds, cashews, pecans
- Berry crops: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries
- Sugar crops: sugarcane. sugar beets, sorghum
- Potatoes varieties and production.
Forest Products and Forest management
editMechanical
edit- General Farm Machinery
- Tillage equipment (ploughs, harrows, seed drills, rollers etc.)
- Harvesting equipment (combines, swathers, cotton pickers, etc.)
- Processing equipment (chaff choppers, root choppers, grain dryers, threshing floors etc.)
- Hay & Silage/Forage equipment
- Milking equipment
- Hand tools & activities. Axe, sickle, scythe, rake, hay knife, swap-hook, fencing tools, hoes, sheep shears etc.
(New section? Same section but call it "Equipment" or something?)
- Stock handling & control equipment (crush/squeeze, cattle race, sheep dip, creep feeder, fences, gates, stiles, cattle grids, water troughs etc.
- Agricultural buildings. Dairy, byre, farmhouse, sty etc.
- Storage. Clamp, granary (staddle stones), silo, barn, rick etc.
Agricultural Input Products
edit- Crop Protection Chemicals
- Feed supplements
- Chemical based (inorganic) fertilizers
- Organic fertilizers
Diseases & Pests
edit- In Crops
- In Livestock
Agricultural support organizations
edit- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural extension
- Cooperative Extension Service
- 4-H
- The Grange (organization) (formal name: The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry)
- National FFA Organization
- United States Agricultural Information Network