Agriculture Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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brown-bagged v. They apparently were brown-bagging seed, selling it for just under the brand price and using it for propagation purposes.”…Hanshaw says others accused were selling brown-bagged wheat seed for $1 to $2 under the certified seed market price. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2007)

brown-bagging v. “Brown-bag” sales—a reference to farmers’ rudimentary packaging—are prompting big seed companies to drop expensive research programs and thus give foreign competitors an advantage, the industry claims. Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. says that brown-bagging of its version of hard red winter wheat got so prevalent in grain-belt states that the company simply ceased doing research and dropped out of the market. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Apr. 10, 2007)

Bubba Gump effect n. Those numbers might not be startling, but experts warn there is an uneven distribution of the wealth taken from the seas. Fishers whose boats were spared by the storms are able to catch more of what’s out there, allowing them to capitalize while others struggle with repairs. It’s often known as the “Bubba Gump effect,” referring to the 1994 film whose main character, Forrest Gump, had shrimp-fishing success after a major hurricane on the Alabama coast. [English Agriculture Nautical] [full cite] (May. 21, 2007)

burpless adj. Researchers in Australia have received funding to develop more digestible feeds for cattle—“burpless” grass, in industry parlance—that result in less methane being produced as they are broken down in cows’ stomach(s). [English Agriculture Plant-life New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 19, 2008)

butt cut n. “There really haven’t been, in recent years, blatant cases of timber theft—where a harvester goes in to a 40-acre tract of timber and harvests it and suddenly disappears,” Bell said. One relatively large case involved a logger who diverted timber, he said. The logger was harvesting for a Poinsett County farmer who “realized that the logger was hauling what we refer to as the ‘butt cut’ of the hardwood trees to a separate mill” and claiming them for his own account, Bell said. “Probably 50 percent to 60 percent of the value of the tree is in that first cut of the log, because it’s larger and has the higher grade lumber in it.” [English Agriculture Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 14, 2007)

chase the bloom v. phr. For the most part, colony collapse disorder has been limited to large operations that truck their hives cross country to “chase the bloom,” as it’s known. That is, vast mobile operations that make most of their cash not from honey but rather from for-hire pollination services in areas where mono-cropping and suburbanization have wiped out wild bees and small-scale bee keeping. [English Agriculture Environment Plant-life] [full cite] (May. 3, 2007)

chemigation n. North Dakota farmers see the practice of applying pesticides and fertilizers through irrigation systems as being easier and cheaper than other methods.…Herb Grenz of Linton, who rents land to a farmer who sometimes uses chemigation to apply nitrogen fertilizer to potatoes, said a concrete containment system would be an added cost and extra work. [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2007)

chicken ark n. Getting set up with chickens can be very cheap: the birds themselves cost from 25p to £20 each and the housing can be home-made, although a wooden chicken “ark” will cost around £200. [English United Kingdom Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2007)

chicken tractor n. A chicken tractor is basically a bottomless cage or pen of some kind. This is so the chickens can scratch (a chicken’s raison de etre) and eat off of the ground such things as grass, weeds, bugs, etc. In the U.K., chicken tractors are called chicken arks. You can drag your chicken tractor around the yard if you want. They often feature wheels. Without a cage bottom, the chicken manure goes directly onto the ground and becomes fertilizer. [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2007)

chicken tractor n. A Chicken tractor is a chicken coop built on wheels and without a floor. This allow you to move the chickens around your orchard or yard on a regular basis. They eat the bugs, scratch and fertilize the soil and after a few days you move them to the next spot. No cleaning the bottom of the cage etc. [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2007)

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