Agriculture

Items

• field capacity

  The percentage or fraction of water (mass or volume basis should be specified) remaining in a soil in the field 2 to 3 days after having been thoroughly wetted and after free drainage is negligible. The term is of limited value in exact work since it does not represent a unique value.
• filly

  A young female horse, especially one less than four years old.
• flocculate

  To aggregate or clump together individual, tiny soil particles, especially fine day clay, into small clumps or floccules. Opposite of deflocculates or disperse.
• floriculture

  Floriculture, branch of ornamental horticulture concerned with growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants as well as with flower arrangement.
• flushing

  The vertical water movement through soil to intentionally remove soil constituents.
• fodder

  Feed for animals.
• freely drained soil

  Refers to a type of soil that allows water to pass through it quickly, preventing water from pooling on the surface or within the soil profile.
• genes

  A unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
• grading

  Arrange in or allocate to grades; classify or sort.
• grafting

  The joining together of plant parts by means of tissue regeneration. Grafting is the act of placing a portion of one plant (bud or scion) into or on a stem, root, or branch of another (stock) in such a way that a union will be formed, and the partners will continue to grow.
• grazier

  A grazier is a person who grazes cattle or sheep for the market, or a rancher who owns or operates a ranch.
• groundwater

  Subsurface water in the zone of saturation that is free to move under the influence of gravity, often horizontally to stream channels.
• grubbing

  Refers to the process of clearing an area by digging up roots, stumps or other vegetation.
• gymnosperm

  Gymnosperms are seed-producing plants with unenclosed seeds, such as conifers, cycads, Ginkgo and gnetophytes.
• half breed

  An animal or a plant that has been produced from two different types of animals or plant.
• hardening off

  The process of allowing a plant to transition from a protected indoor or greenhouse environment to the harsh outdoor.
• hay

  Grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder.
• heat

  Heat is the thermal energy transfer between systems or bodies due to a temperature difference.
• heifer

  A heifer is a young cow, especially one that has not yet given birth to a calf.
• herb

  Any plant with leaves, seeds, or flowers used for flavouring, food, medicine, or perfume.
• herbicide

  A chemical that kills plants or inhibits their growth / intended for weed control.
• herd recording

  Constant recording of the number of animals there is.
• heritability

  heritability is a genetic parameter which indicates the proportion of total phenotypic variance that is due to additive genetic effect.
• horticulture

  The science of growing fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants.
• humus

  That more or less stable fraction of the soil organic matter, remaining after the major portion of added plant and animal residues has decomposed / usually amorphous and dark coloured.