Glossary
Agricultural Engineer Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential agricultural engineer terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key agricultural engineer vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in agricultural engineer training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- ASABE
- Ag engineering society.
- Center pivot
- Rotating irrigation.
- Crop rotation
- Changing crops each season.
- Drainage tile
- Underground drains.
- Drip irrigation
- Water delivered to roots.
- Erosion control
- Preventing soil loss.
- Extension service
- University outreach to farmers.
- Grain bin
- Storage structure.
- Precision agriculture
- Data-driven farming.
- Sustainability
- Long-term resource care.
- Telematics
- Machine data.
- USDA
- U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Variable rate
- Adjusting inputs by area.
- Yield
- Amount harvested.
- Yield map
- Harvest data map.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Agricultural Engineer practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Agricultural Engineer training.
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