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

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curve bender n. He had a pretty good start, weighing in an ounce shy of 9 pounds so you couldn’t call him a low-birth, high-growth “curve bender,” as they say in the cattle catalogs. He’s more of a high-birth, high-growth performance type. [English Agriculture Animals, Insects, & Birds] [full cite] (May. 5, 2007)

cybridization n. An experimental method called cybridization transfers a gene for sterility into seedy varieties, rendering them seedless more efficiently than the shotgun approach used in irradiation. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Mar. 26, 2007)

double-digging n. The two have employed a practice called “double-digging,” which involves digging up the top foot of soil, tilling the bottom part of the soil underneath and then replacing and tilling the top foot. [English Agriculture Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 13, 2008)

drip tape n. Feeder tubes. Often called “emitters” or “drip tape” because it’s sold flattened on a roll, these tubes are made from black polyethylene plastic, with holes spaced at regular intervals to dispense water at a relatively constant rate, even with changes in elevation and water pressure. [English Agriculture Environment] [full cite] (May. 18, 2007)

emitter n. Feeder tubes. Often called “emitters” or “drip tape” because it’s sold flattened on a roll, these tubes are made from black polyethylene plastic, with holes spaced at regular intervals to dispense water at a relatively constant rate, even with changes in elevation and water pressure. [English Agriculture Environment] [full cite] (May. 18, 2007)

farm the government v. phr. Some farmers reaped large windfalls by “farming the government,” as maximizing subsidies came to be known. [English Agriculture Government Money & Finance] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2007)

farming one’s insurance n. Other growers and government officials said some of the farmers who started growing sweet potatoes had never grown them before. Others planted in areas known to be wet. Still others didn’t take care of their crops, saving money on fertilizers and other production costs, only to turn around and file insurance claims when their yields were poor—a practice known as “farming your insurance.” [English Agriculture Money & Finance] [full cite] (Oct. 18, 2006)

farmshoring n. Google is not alone in looking at old manufacturing towns or rural areas for expansion. As the cost of doing business rises in traditional high-tech areas like Silicon Valley or Northern Virginia, more companies want alternatives, economic development specialists say. In rural areas, the phenomenon is known as “farmshoring,” a play on the term for moving jobs overseas, “offshoring.” [English Agriculture Employment] [full cite] (May. 27, 2007)

fertigation n. Professor Michael Delwiche, chairman of biological and cultural engineering at UC Davis, has experimented with wireless sensing systems that precisely apply water—sometimes mixed with chemical fertilizers in a process called fertigation—to tree crops like nectarines. [English Agriculture] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2008)

flake n. A flake of hay is about 20 lbs so each cow would get about a 1⁄4 of a flake. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

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