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

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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)

chicken tractor n. (title) [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2007)

chook tractor n. The “chook tractor” is a time old permaculture concept as far as i can tell. it can be as complex or simple as you like. but the basic principle is enclose the chooks where you want to plant a garden, feed them and leave them there for 1-3 months and they do all the scratching and turning over of the soil for you—fertilise it with their poo and eat all the weeds (including couch grass)—for basically nothing (and you get eggs!). [English Australia Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Jun. 19, 2007)

compost tea n. The compost teas are part of an approach known as biodynamics, a type of farming that bans use of artificial pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, and promotes crop and wildlife diversity to curb pests.…The theory is that if a plant is resistant to problems such as drought or insects “there’s something in that plant that causes that resistance. So you just take that, you make a tea out of it and spray it on whatever you want that you want to have that resistance.” [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2006)

compost tea n. Other methods at the site include earthworm bins, compost “tea” brewers and a complex bioreactor that is designed to produce heat and energy. [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2006)

compost tea n. The Amstutz compost-humus product is especially helpful to the housewife for potting plants. About 25 percent of the mixture in potting soil should be compost. Making a “compost tea” is also suggested for watering plants. This mixed in the ration of one pound of compost-humus to each gallon of water. [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2006)

compost tea n. Applications of a manure or compost “tea” every week or so, once the stems have begun to bulb out, helps a lot. Put a couple of shovelfuls of manure or compost in a burlap bag and let is soak in several gallons of water for about three days. Draw off the muddy liquid and add more water until it has the appearance of light tea. Then feed it to the young plants. [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2006)

compost tea n. Spraying compost tea coats plants with a dense and diverse population of beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. A good tea can contain as many as 25,000 species of bacteria. Once on the leaves, compost tea suppresses diseases in several ways, including crowding out unbeneficial microorganisms, causing antibiotic reactions against diseases and consuming pathogens. [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2006)

cow-sharing n. Since 2004, when the state legislature outlawed a practice known as “cow-sharing,” it has been illegal in North Carolina to sell raw milk for human consumption.…If it is approved there, consumers would be allowed to enter into contracts with farmers to buy a “share” of their cows and get raw milk from them. It would still be illegal to sell it commercially, but health experts are alarmed at the prospect of any unpasteurized milk becoming legal in North Carolina. [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 29, 2007)

cultchless adj. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, for example, stood by as nearly 750,000 such “cultchless” oysters were eaten by cow-nosed rays in two days earlier this spring at a reef site on the Piankatank River. Cultchless is another term for a single oyster, a separate animal, which a ray can more easily slurp compared with several developing babies on one, big shell. [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (Sep. 26, 2006)

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