Farming and Gardening Tools and Equipment Vocabulary
Here is a list of farming and agriculture vocabulary. It's not a complete list of all the words.
Ability / Business
- Ability - (noun) Our ability to produce hay has tripled over the past three years.
- Academic - (adjective) It's important to have an academic background when breeding crops.
- Activities - (noun) Our fall activities include a hayride and corn maze.
- Affect - (verb) The past winter's rains will affect the harvest.
- Agricultural - (adjective) The agricultural landscape has changed greatly over the past fifty years.
- Agriculture - (noun) Agriculture used to play a much larger role in the economy.
- American - (adjective) American farmers produce wheat which is sold abroad.
- Animal - (noun) It's important not to feed these animals any corn.
- Aquaculture - (noun) Aquaculture is an expanding business opportunity.
- Aspect - (noun) One aspect of our business focuses on grain production.
- Background - (noun) Our family has an excellent background in agriculture.
- Bails - (noun) Pick up those bails of hay and take them to the barn.
- Bitten - (adjective) If you've been bitten by a snake, see the doctor!
- Breed - (noun) We breed horses on our ranch.
- Breeding - (noun) Breeding dogs is a popular business in the countryside.
- Business - (noun) Our business focuses on hemp import.
Care / Duties
- Care - (noun) We should provide better care for our livestock.
- Cattle - (noun) The cattle are in the south field.
- Certification - (noun) We need to apply for certification once every three years.
- Chemicals - (noun plural) We promise not to use chemicals in our fertilizer.
- Clean - (adjective) You'll find the barn is clean and ready for the livestock.
- Climate - (noun) The climate is changing rapidly and we need to respond.
- Cold - (adjective) Last year we lost a few crops to the cold.
- Common - (adjective) It's a common method to fight insect infestation.
- Communication - (noun) The communication between farmer and market is essential.
- Computer - (noun) Use that computer to do the bookkeeping.
- Conditions - (noun) We'll harvest next week if weather conditions are good.
- Constantly - (adverb) We strive to constantly improve our products.
- Continue - (verb) Let's continue watering this field until five.
- Contract - (noun) We signed a contract to deliver 200 head of cattle.
- Contrast - (noun/verb) We contrast our products to others by organically farming.
- Cooperative - (noun) The farmer's cooperative sells vegetables at very reasonable prices.
- Corporation - (noun) Unfortunately, corporations are replacing family farms.
- Cow - (noun) The cow was ill and was slaughtered.
- Credit - (noun) It's risky business taking out credit to seed a new field.
- Crop - (noun) This year's corn crop was outstanding.
- Customer - (noun) The customer is always king.
- Dairy - (adjective) Our dairy products are sold throughout Washington.
- Decade- (noun) We've been in the business for more than a decade.
- Decline - (noun/verb) Unfortunately, we've seen a decline in sales recently.
- Deliver - (verb) We deliver sod to your home.
- Demands - (noun) The demands of farming gets me up early every morning.
- Disease - (noun) Make sure that there is no disease in that crop.
- Driver's - (adjective) Get a driver's license and we can put you to work.
- Duties - (noun) Your duties include gathering eggs every morning.
Egg . Grown
- Egg - (noun) We gather more than 1,000 eggs each day.
- Environment - (noun) The environment is fragile.
- Equipment - (noun) The equipment is located in the barn.
- Exposure- (noun) The eastern field has more exposure to the sun.
- Facilities - (noun) Our facilities include three hundred acres of pasture land.
- Farm - (noun) The farm is located in Vermont.
- Farmer - (noun) The farmer purchased seed for his livestock.
- Feed - (noun) Take the feed out to the barn.
- Fertilizer - (noun) We use the best fertilizer possible on our crops.
- Fiber - (noun) You need more fiber in your diet.
- Fish - (noun) Fish can be farmed for profit.
- Flower - (noun) We grow and sell flowers from all over the world.
- Fruit - (noun) The fruit is ripe.
- Grazing - (noun) Our horses are out grazing.
- Greenhouse - (noun) We grow tomatoes in the greenhouse.
- Grown - (adjective) We sell grown shrubs.
Handle / Location
- Handle - (noun/verb) Grab that handle and let's lift this up onto the truck.
- Harvest - (noun/verb) Last year's harvest was excellent.
- Hay - (noun) Load the hay into the back of the truck.
- Hazardous - (adjective) Be careful of the hazardous chemicals in some fertilizers.
- Health - (noun) Take care of your health.
- Horse - (noun) The horse needs to be shoed.
- Horticulture - (noun) Horticulture should be taught in our local high school.
- Indoors - (noun) We grow the plants indoors in a controlled setting.
- Knowledge - (noun) He has a lot of knowledge about local plants.
- Laborer - (noun) We need to hire some laborers to help with the harvest.
- Land - (noun) You should invest in some new land for grazing.
- Landowner - (noun) The landowner rented out the land to a local business.
- Landscaping - (noun) Landscaping involves taking care of gardens and lawns.
- Leading - (adjective) The leading agricultural experts say to play in June.
- Lease - (noun) Our lease on this land is up at the end of January.
- License - (noun) Do you have a cultivation license?
- Livestock - (noun) The livestock are grazing in the fields.
- Location - (noun) We're looking for a new location for our farm.
Machinery / Oversee
- Machinery - (noun) Machinery costs keep rising.
- Machine - (noun) That machine needs to be repaired.
- Maintain - (verb) We maintain our own machinery.
- Maintenance - (noun) The maintenance is scheduled for next week.
- Meat - (noun) We have the freshest meat in the state.
- Method - (noun) We use traditional methods for our produce.
- Nursery - (noun) The nursery grows bushy plants and fruit trees.
- Nut - (noun) The hazelnut is common in Oregon.
- Offer - (noun/verb) We'd like to offer you a discount on our products.
- Operate - (verb) We operate in Lincoln County.
- Organic - (adjective) All of our food is organic.
- Oversee - (verb) Peter oversees our wheat sales.
Pack / Rural
- Pack - (noun/verb) Let's pack up these tools and go home.
- Pen - (noun) Use that pen to sign here.
- Pesticide - (noun) Pesticides are very dangerous and should be used with caution.
- Physical - (adjective) Farming is a very physical activity.
- Plant - (noun) That plant is new to our farm.
- Poultry - (noun) Chickens and turkeys are also known as poultry.
- Process - (noun) The curing process takes three weeks.
- Produce - (noun/verb) Our produce is sold throughout the state.
- Raise - (verb) We raise chicken and rabbits on our farm.
- Ranch - (noun/verb) The ranch is located in California.
- Rancher - (noun) The rancher spent the day herding the cattle.
- Reflecting - (adjective) This reflecting tape marks the spot.
- Regulation - (noun) There are many regulations that we need to follow.
- Repair - (noun/verb) Do you think you can repair the tractor?
- Responsibilities - (noun) My responsibilities include caring for livestock.
- Risk - (noun/verb) Bad weather is one of the greatest risks in farming.
- Rural - (adjective) Our rural location is ideal for farming activities.
Safety / Vegetable
- Safety - (noun) Safety is our first priority.
- Scale - (noun) Use that scale to weigh the fruit.
- Schedule - (noun/verb) Our schedule includes three trips to the farm.
- Season - (noun) It's not harvest season yet.
- Seasonal - (adjective) We sell seasonal fruit at the fruit stand.
- Seed - (noun) Plant the seed here.
- Sheep - (noun) Those black sheep have excellent wool.
- Shrub - (noun) Those shrubs need to be trimmed.
- Supervise - (verb) Could you supervise the harvest this year?
- Training- (noun) We should provide safety training for all of our employees.
- Tree - (noun) I planted that tree twenty years ago.
- Vegetable - (noun) We grow vegetables and fruit on our farm.