Dictionary of Agriculture - H doc

... 12:33 PM high mortality rate 126 ment association for the Scottish High- lands. Abbr HIE high mortality rate high mortality rate noun a high percentage of animals in a group which die high-performance high-performance ... typical hammer mill has a high-speed shaft with a grinding rotor at one end and a fan at the other. Eight flails are attached to the rotor which beat the grain into meal....

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... infection of the lining of the womb in cattle, the symptoms of which are a white discharge and/or a high temperature. Also called whites Meuse-Rhine-Ijssel Meuse-Rhine-Ijssel noun a dual- purpose ... or slaughtered ‘The emphasis in the UK has been to achieve maximum growth rates from the earliest possible time, using high price, high density diets to achieve the least number of days t...

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... milk, from which Camembert cheese is made. North Country Cheviot North Country Cheviot noun a large- sized breed of sheep with fine good-quality wool. This variety of the Cheviot is found in Caithness ... Sutherland. North Devon North Devon  Devon Northern Dairy Shorthorn Northern Dairy Shorthorn noun a dairy breed of cattle, which comes from the old Teeswater cattle, with perhaps a li...

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... bred for racing thousand grain weight thousand grain weight noun the weight of a thousand grains, used as an indicator of grain quality thousand-headed kale thousand-headed kale, thousand- head kale ... above which trees will not grow ć The slopes above the treeline were covered with boulders, rocks and pebbles. 2. a line in the northern or southern hemi- sphere, north or south of whic...

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... tubercu- losis. 2. the ability of a plant to resist disease through a protective covering on leaves, through the formation of proto- plasts or through the development of inac- tive forms of viruses immunoassay immunoassay ... effect of something ć Cloud cover inhibits cooling of the Earth’s surface at night. inhibitor inhibitor /n | h btə/ noun a device or substance which pre...

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... sterilisa- tion. The two methods used are heating to 72°C for fifteen seconds (the high- temperature-short-time method) or to 65°C for half an hour, and then cooling rapidly. This has the effect of ... PM plough body 192 which are attached a number of parts which engage the soil, such as the disc coulter, the share and the mouldboard which turns the furrow slice. There are three main type...

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... from the target. angle of arrival The angle which the line of propa- gation of an incoming radio wave makes with the surface of the earth. Compare ANGLE OF DE- PARTURE. angle of azimuth The horizontal ... dimension, or of the size of the ampere. ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir- cuit in one hour when the rate of f...

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