Gro-pedia

USA: Term equivalent to ‘Market Garden’ (see above). Truck means to trade or barter – still sometimes used as in: ‘I will have no truck with him.’

Invented a seed drill. The sowing of seed in rows made it possible to use a horsedrawn hoe and thereby increase efficiency.

A male sheep. Another word for ‘ram’.

Butchers will only buy lambs that have reached a certain weight and level of fatness. How long it takes a lamb to grow to this size varies according to breed, birth weight and food available. Some lambs finish sooner than others. On hill farms where there is not enough outdoor […]

the growth of the city into rural areas

United States Department of Agriculture, a Federal agency involved in all phases of agriculture

See Cake. Small or juvenile animal pellets are usually smaller in size with adjusted ingredients.

any unwanted plant, especially those that crowd out more desirable plants

A castrated male sheep.

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

material that has been piled into a long row in a field; may refer to hay that is being prepared for baling, piles of compost, or other materials

qualities of character believed to be promoted by work

Multi-purpose word describing areas in and around buildings, usually where stock is kept, things stored, or used by traffic.

the amount of a crop produced in a given time or from a given place

A slang term for a female sheep

Fields of grass are grown but the animals are not allowed to graze them. Instead, the grass is cut regularly and taken to the animals. It has the advantage that fields are never poached and all the grass is used rather than animals just grazing the best bits. Against this […]