Day 15..
Assignment deadline: machinery and soil - handed in!!!
The structure of soil is where we began today, so what is that you may ask - well, in Emma definition it is the way the soil particles are help together.. These particles being sand, silt, clay and gravel. The technical term for soil structure being how individual soil granules clump or bind together and aggregate, and therefore, the arrangement of soil pores between them. A soil structure is worked out according to grade, class and type of aggregate.. Will need to look over notes to learn all of these.
A grass plant is made up of a culm, node, internode, stolon and tiller. And, the roots are fibrous. A leaf blade is usually long and narrow, with parallel sides and veins which taper to a pointed or blunt tip. The part of the grass plant properly known as the flower, is actually composed of many small flowers hidden, except at flowering time, within scales or bracts. The structures containing the flowers are called spikelets.... Ok, so I'm not that clever to know all this yet, I'm quoting from my notes.. But that's good revision surely :)
Moving on to uk crop production, the main uk crops are winter and spring wheat, winter and spring barley, oil seed rape, maize, winter and spring oats, potatoes and sugar beet. It's very interesting to learn how much of each goes into either the human food chain or back in as animal feed.. I will finish my table and learn a bit more about this!
That's all for now, it's directed study week now!!!! Whoop whoop see you in a week
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