AEST AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS CERTIFICATION -
FOOD SCIENCE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
ayrshire - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Dairy Cattle / red and
white mottled
brown swiss - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Dairy cattle / gray
color
guernsey - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Dairy Cattle / Brown
and white blotches
holstein - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔dairy cattle / black and
white color
jersey - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔dairy cattle / brown with
black on nose
milking shorthorn - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔dairy cattle /
stockier than other dairy breeds
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rotary milking parlor aka carousel - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Cows ride "merry-go-round"
herringbone milking parlor - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔-cows
enter and leave in groups
-cows stand at an angle to milkers
tandem milking parlor - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔cows enter
1 at a time
parallel milking parlor - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Cows
stand straight / perpendicular
Angus - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Beef Cattle-stocky body,
red or black, small ears no hump on back of neck
braford - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - red and
white. usually red around eyes, small hump on back of
neck
brahman - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Beef cattle - floppy
ears, large hump on back of neck
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Brangus - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - can also be
red, hump on back of neck
Charolais - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - white and
stocky, small ears
Chianina - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - white and
really tall
Hereford - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - red and
white, all white around eyes, no hump on back of neck
Santa Gertrudis - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle -
solid red, hump on back of neck
Simmental - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle - red and
white, usually red around eyes, no hump on back of neck
Texas longhorn cattle - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔beef cattle
- long horns