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Intensive crop farming is a modern industrialized form of crop farming. Intensive crop farming's methods include innovation in agricultural machinery...

Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk...

classification of crops, commercial, agricultural, and taxonomical can be considered to be the most widely accepted agriculture classification of crops. Plants...

floriculture, and industrial crops. Horticulture crops include plants used for other crops (e.g. fruit trees). Floriculture crops include bedding plants...

Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists...

called industrial agriculture, which is characterised by technologies designed to increase yield. Techniques include planting multiple crops per year...

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development...

term is used to differentiate marketed crops from staple crop ("subsistence crop") in subsistence agriculture, which are those fed to the producer's own...

synthesis of ammonium nitrate fertilizer on an industrial scale, greatly increasing crop yields. Modern agriculture has raised social, political, and environmental...

relating to agricultural resources and the environment (e.g. soil science, agroclimatology); biology of agricultural crops and animals (e.g. crop science...

practices allowed them to grow staple food crops, especially grains such as wheat and barley, and industrial crops, such as flax and papyrus. To the west...

feet apart. Some crops are planted by drills, which put out much more seed in rows less than a foot apart, blanketing the field with crops. Transplanters...

pesticides is one of the main drivers of the negative impact of modern industrial agriculture on the environment. Pesticides, because they are toxic chemicals...

yield-per-plant, putting pressure on resource-poor areas as food crops are replaced with cash crops. Cereals are grasses, in the Poaceae family, that produce...

The Norfolk four-course system, as it is now known, rotates crops so that different crops are planted with the result that different kinds and quantities...

general-purpose or row-crop tractor is tailored specifically to the growing of crops grown in rows, and most especially to cultivating these crops. These tractors...

especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulses for...

In agriculture, cover crops are plants that are planted to cover the soil rather than for the purpose of being harvested. Cover crops manage soil erosion...

New World crops are those crops, food and otherwise, that are native to the New World (mostly the Americas) and were not found in the Old World before...

Intercropping into their agriculture, which is a practice where multiple crops are planted together in the same area. This strategy allows crops to help one another...