Understanding Farming: A Quiz on Agricultural Practices Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, (Oregon Territory Seal pictured) thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court.

prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida.

the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912.

Norwegian politician Lars T. Platou was an electrical engineer and farmer by occupation.

sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers.

WWI vet and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer.

Matthew T. Dickerson is a computational geometer, scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, novelist, blues musician, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper.

Sam Little, a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest.

arson was suspected when the last original boô (pictured), a building where a farmer rested when grazing cattle far from a village, burned down in the Netherlands.

Understanding Farming: A Quiz on Agricultural Practices

1 In ________ however, a person using such techniques on small patches of land might be called a gardener and be considered a hobbyist.

2 In developed nations, a farmer (as a profession) is usually defined as someone with an ownership interest in crops or ________, and who provides land or management in their production.

3 In the context of agribusiness, a farmer can be almost anyone – and can legally qualify under ________ for various subsidies, incentives, and tax relief.

4 The term ________ farmer is applied to those engaged in milk production.

5 The FNSEA is very politically active in France, especially on the ________ issue.

6 The term farmer usually applies to a person who grows field crops, and/or manages orchards or vineyards, or raises ________ or poultry such as chicken and cows.

7 A poultry farmer is one who concentrates on raising ________, turkeys, domesticated ducks and geese, or is involved in egg production.

8 Their products are usually sold in a ________ or, in a subsistence economy, consumed by the family or pooled by the community.

9 Special terms also apply to other people who husband domesticated animals, namely shepherd for sheep farmers and goatherd for ________ farmers.

10 Alternatively, growers who manage farmland for an absentee landowner, sharing the harvest (or its profits) are known as ________ or sharefarmers.

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