Farming terms
silage, hay, pasture, straw, rangeland
fodder/provender (thức ăn chăn nuôi): food for domesticated livestock. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage).
Silage is fodder made from green foliage crops which have been preserved by fermentation (micro-organisms & sugar) to the point of souring. Silage được ủ vào summar và đem ra feed animal vào winter time. Ví dụ trồng barley làm silage, cắt lúc nó còn xanh (ko chờ tới khi chín vàng mới cắt). Cắt ra thành từng miến nhỏ rồi đem ủ.
Khi ủ silage phải yếm khí, nên người ta có thể cho silage ferment trong: pits, silos, or just piles with canvas on top.
Hay (cỏ khô). Hay có thể làm thành haystack or rolled hay bale.
Straw (rơm)
trowels???
Farming Structures
A wheelbarrow (xe rùa hay xe cút kít) is a small hand-propelled load-bearing vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear.
barn: chuồng trại
Compost (phân hữu cơ) is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties. It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant and food waste, recycling organic materials, and manure.
A silo (from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós) 'pit for holding grain') is a structure for storing bulk materials.
ranch: trang trại nuôi cows, horses, sheep, etc. Người quản lý gọi là rancher.
Farming Tools & Vehicles
Culling (chọn lọc, không phải chọn lọc tự nhiên nhé) is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics. In animal breeding, it is removing or segregating animals from a breeding stock based on a specific trait. This is done to exaggerate desirable characteristics, or to remove undesirable characteristics by altering the genetic makeup of the population.
spade: cái thuổng. Ngoài ra, "spade" còn có nghĩa là một chất bài.
pitchfork: cây chĩa
Tractor: máy kéo. Có thể gắn công cụ để cày phía sau máy kéo.