Terms beginning with T
- Three-Point Linkage
Ferguson's invention of a connection that permitted a tractor to lift as well as drag a plough or other implement. This made it possible to cultivate a much wider range of soils than before.
- Tiller
Strictly a secondary flowering/seedbearing stalk in wheat or other cereal plant. Desirable in that the plant produces a greater number of seeds per seed planted. The term is sometimes used loosely to refer to any, including the primary, flowering stalk.
- Top dress
Apply fertiliser to a growing crop.
- Topping
Cutting down weeds and grass that have grown too long. The equivalent of mowing the lawn.
- Townsend 'Turnip'
Turnip' Townsend devised a winter feeding regime whereby root crops were grown for animal fodder. Prior to this most livestock was slaughtered in the autumn and the remainder barely survived on hay until the spring. Modern silage systems have largely replaced the root crops.
- Triticale
A cereal crop that is a cross between rye and wheat.
- Truck Farm(ing)
USA: Term equivalent to 'Market Garden' (see above). Truck means to trade or barter - still sometimes used as in: 'I will have no truck with him.'
- Tull Jethro
Invented a seed drill. The sowing of seed in rows made it possible to use a horsedrawn hoe and thereby increase efficiency.
- Tup
A male sheep. Another word for 'ram'.
- Thinning
The removal of some trees from a stand so that the remaining trees are able to grow more.
- Threatened Species and Communities
A native species or community that is vulnerable, endangered or presumed extinct. (as defined in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999)
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