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Agribusiness - Definition: Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. Example: Tyson Chicken or Smithfield Pork Application: Agribusiness is a very large and powerful sector in the U.S. Agriculture - Definition: The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. Example: Growing Crops. Application: Agriculture has been a developing activity over the past several thousand years. It has changed more in the past 30 years than it has in all of the years before that. Cereal Grain - Definition: A grass yielding grain for food. Example: Oats, Wheat, Rye, and Barley Application: Cereal Grain is mass produced and is used in many different industries: from bread to beer. Chaff - Definition: Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing. Example: The Chaffs, husks, are separated by being threshed. Application: The Chaff is where most nutrients are fund. Combine - Definition: A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans gram while moving over a field. Example: Combines are driven through fields where they pick up any useful part of a plant. Application: Combines now allow for very efficient agriculture. Commercial Agriculture - Definition: Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. Example:Tyson farms Application: Commercial Agriculture has allowed for food to be mass produced in a way that has significantly impacted both the health and finances of the American People.Crop - Definition: Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season. Example: Oats, Wheat, Barley, Rye, Corn...anything really Application: Crops are now genetically engineered to grow anywhere in the world.