# Agriculture Upper Intermediate

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- CEFR: B2 (Upper-intermediate)
- Theme: Professional & Specialized
- Words: 16
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Agriculture vocabulary for arable and livestock farming, including herbicide use, animal husbandry, silage and the combine harvester, plus the soil erosion…

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## Word list

* **herbicide** /ˈhɜrbɪˌsaɪd/: A chemical used to kill unwanted plants or weeds. — “The farmer sprayed **herbicide** along the edges of the field.”
* **husbandry** /ˈhʌzbəndri/: The care and management of farm animals or crops. — “Good **husbandry** kept the herd healthy through winter.”
* **silage**: Grass or other green crops that are stored and left to ferment, used to feed animals in winter. — “The barn was full of **silage** for the cattle.”
* **combine harvester**: A large farm machine that cuts, threshes and cleans grain crops in one pass. — “The **combine harvester** moved slowly across the wheat field.”
* **soil erosion**: The gradual wearing away of topsoil by wind, water or poor farming practices. — “Heavy rain caused serious **soil erosion** on the bare hillside.”
* **monoculture**: The practice of growing only one type of crop across a large area of land. — “**Monoculture** left the region's soil badly depleted.”
* **drought-resistant**: Describes a crop or plant that can survive with very little water. — “Scientists developed a **drought-resistant** variety of maize.”
* **arable** /ˈærəbəl/: Describes land that is suitable for growing crops. — “Only half the farm's land is **arable**; the rest is too rocky.”
* **compost** /ˈkɑmpoʊst/: Decayed plant material added to soil to help crops grow. — “She mixed old vegetable peelings into the **compost** each week.”
* **fallow** /ˈfæˌloʊ/: Describes farmland left unplanted for a season to recover. — “The north field was left **fallow** this year to rest the soil.”
* **crop yield**: The amount of a crop produced per area of land. — “**Crop yield** fell for three years and nobody agreed why.”
* **tillage** /ˈtɪlɑdʒ/: The preparation of soil by ploughing and breaking it up. — “Reduced **tillage** cut the fuel bill by a third.”
* **nitrate** /ˈnaɪˌtreɪt/: A chemical used in fertiliser that can pollute water. — “**Nitrate** levels in the stream doubled after the field was drained.”
* **run-off**: Water that flows off land carrying soil or chemicals. — “**Run-off** from the yard reached the brook within an hour.”
* **smallholding**: A small farm, usually worked by one family. — “The **smallholding** supported four people and two jobs in town.”
* **stocking density**: How many animals are kept in a given area. — “**Stocking density** is the first thing an inspector measures.”

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