Glossary
Agricultural Technician Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential agricultural technician terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key agricultural technician vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in agricultural technician training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Agronomy
- The science of crops and soils.
- Check plot
- An untreated comparison plot.
- Data integrity
- Accurate, complete records.
- Disease rating
- A score of disease severity.
- Field trial
- A planned experiment in the field.
- Germination
- A seed beginning to grow.
- GLP
- Good Laboratory Practice standards.
- Growth stage
- A plant’s stage of development.
- Moisture content
- Water in grain or soil.
- Plot
- A small area used for a treatment.
- Protocol
- The written plan for a study.
- Randomization
- Placing treatments randomly to avoid bias.
- Replication
- Repeating treatments to strengthen results.
- Soil core
- A sample of soil taken with a probe.
- Yield
- Crop produced per area.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Agricultural Technician practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Agricultural Technician training.
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