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  • Vegetables are perishable and should be eaten soon after harvest. - 674
  Key words: Agriculture, Crop, Farm, Fruit, Grain, Harvest, Harvested, Harvesting, Harvestman, Harvests, Profit, Reap, Vegetable  

  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)  

Question: What is agriculture and farming?
  Answer: Agriculture is the occupation of cultivating the soil, growing crops, or feeding, breeding, and raising animals for food and profit. - 185

Question: What is a farm?
  Answer: A farm is a tract of land that is used to grow crops, poultry, or livestock. They frequently include buildings such as a house, barn, or silo. Farms may also have an area of water to raise fish or seafood. - 182

Question: What is agriculture and farming?
  Answer: Farming is the occupation of cultivating the soil, growing crops, or feeding, breeding, and raising animals for food and profit. - 183

Question: What is fruit?
  Answer: Fruit is grown for food. It contains seeds, and is usually sweet to eat. - 74

Question: Is all fruit sweet?
  Answer: No, some fruit such as lemons are sour. Other fruit may taste bland, bitter, or salty. - 80

Question: What is a vegetable?
  Answer: Vegetables are any part of a plant that is grown for food. - 75

Question: What parts of plants are used for vegetables?
  Answer: Vegetables may include: Leaf, Root, Stalk, or Flower. - 76


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  External related links to the world ...  

US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
 US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

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Agricultural Marketing Service
 Agricultural Marketing Service

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Agricultural Research Service
 Agricultural Research Service

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Community Development Office (Agriculture Department)
 Community Development Office (Agriculture Department)

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Farm Service Agency
 Farm Service Agency

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Foreign Agricultural Service
 Foreign Agricultural Service

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National Agricultural Statistics Service
 National Agricultural Statistics Service

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Research, Education and Economics (Agriculture Department)
 Research, Education and Economics (Agriculture Department)

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All about produce
 All about produce

aboutproduce.com - 372
USDA's MyPlate
 USDA's MyPlate

 ChooseMyPlate.gov is the home page for the USDA's MyPlate -- the federal government's nutrition education and guidance.

choosemyplate.gov - 1089
How to grow vegetables.
 How to grow vegetables.

 Information on Vegetable gardening. Clyde's Garden Planner is a handy, easy to use vegetable gardening slide chart for the home vegetable gardener.

backyardgardener.com/veg - 1090


  Words of Wisdom  

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.   Genesis 8:22 


And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.   Genesis 30:14 


For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.   Genesis 45:6 


And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.   Exodus 23:16 


Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.   Exodus 34:21, 22 


And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.   Leviticus 19:9 


Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.   Leviticus 23:10, 11 


And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.   Leviticus 23:22 


That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.   Leviticus 25:5 


When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.   Deuteronomy 24:19 


And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.   Joshua 3:15, 16 


But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.   Judges 15:1 


So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.   Ruth 1:22 


And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.   Ruth 2:21-23 


And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.   1 Samuel 6:13 


And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.   1 Samuel 8:12 


Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.   1 Samuel 12:17 


And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.   2 Samuel 21:9, 10 


And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.   2 Samuel 23:13 


Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.   Job 5:5 


Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.   Proverbs 6:8 


He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.   Proverbs 10:5 


The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.   Proverbs 20:4 


As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.   Proverbs 25:13 


As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.   Proverbs 26:1 


Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.   Isaiah 9:3 


Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.   Isaiah 16:9 


And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.   Isaiah 17:5 


In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.   Isaiah 17:11 


For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.   Isaiah 18:4, 5 


And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.   Isaiah 23:3 


And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.   Jeremiah 5:17 


Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.   Jeremiah 5:24 


The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.   Jeremiah 8:20 


Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.   Jeremiah 9:22 


Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.   Jeremiah 50:16 


For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.   Jeremiah 51:33 


Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.   Hosea 6:11 


Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.   Joel 1:11 


Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.   Joel 3:13 


And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.   Amos 4:7 


Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.   Matthew 9:37, 38 


Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.   Matthew 13:30 


The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.   Matthew 13:39 


But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.   Mark 4:29 


Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.   Luke 10:2 


Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.   John 4:35 


And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.   Revelation 14:15 




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