### transaction | commerce | production | crop:

Oat crop
* have direct effects
* increase resistance.
* produce antimicrobial compounds

Other crop
* have seeds.
* include cabbages
  - chinese cabbages
  - vegetables

Root crop
* Most root Crops are frost tolerant and the edible portion is somewhat protected by the soil.
* Most root crops prefer a minimal amount of fertilizers
  - use water
* are crops.
* do well in garden beds.
* play a smaller part in Australian arable farming than they do in North-west Europe.
* require less nitrogen fertilization than leafy crops.

Row crop
* are beets, corn, onions, beans, carrots and other vegetables
  - poor users of soil N because of a limited root system
* leave a substantial surface area of soil exposed to wind and water erosion.

Seed crop
* depend on moisture.
* have benefits
  - great benefits

Egg production
* Some egg production occurs in coastal water
* is called oogenesis
  - correlated with the degree of care given the eggs or young
  - limited to females
  - minimal in the presence of fish
  - reduced, and heavily infested birds refuse to eat and gradually lose weight
* occurs without sexual cross-fertilization of eggs.
* varies with body size
  - the type of worm present
* very active farm industry.

Electricity production
* depends solely on the availability of imported petroleum products.
* is measured at the terminals of all alternator sets in a station
  - the primary use of coal in the United States

Energy production
* affects land, air and water.
* is crucial to cell longevity
  - emphasized because it produces more waste than any other industrial activity
  - measured in kilowatt hours
* is one of the biggest sources of air pollutants in the world
  - major functions of our metabolism
* pollutes the air in urban areas which has a negative influence on human health.
* uses another pathway with malic acid.

### transaction | commerce | production:

Factor of production
* All factors of production have a capacity determined by their physical and technological capability.
* Factors of production are costs of doing the activity, whether the cost is fixed or variable
  - work, ground, capital, information, and environment
+ Economics, The subjects and objects in economics
  * The objects in economic study are consumer goods, capital goods, and factors of production. Capital goods are goods which are necessary for producing other goods. Examples of these are buildings, equipment, and machines. Factors of production are work, ground, capital, information, and environment.

### transaction | commerce | production:

Food production
* Most food production promotes growth.
* Some food production occurs in plants.
* begins in southwestern Asia.
* consumes more fresh water than any other activity in the United States.
* critical and an essential renewable resource.
* crucial area in the new Nicaraguan economy.
* has, in vast tracks of the world, become an industry rather than a craft.
* is America's largest industry
  - achieved by reprocessing soil and rocks in huge factories
  - considered sacred and a ritual is performed after harvest
* is essential to our progress and to our nation's continued strength and security
  - the maintenance of life
  - guided by seasons of produce
  - impossible in conflict areas, and famine often results
  - mainly dependant upon land and water resources
  - of prime interest in many parts of the world
  - through the gardening of the soil and the pasturing of sheep and goats
  - totally dependent on favorable growing conditions
  - very much a function of climate, which in itself is unpredictable
* requires fertile cropland, freshwater, and sunlight
  - high volumes of energy, water and land
* varies widely with seasonal conditions.

Fruit production
* long-term and time consuming activity.
* occurs when the pollinated plant starts to produce cylindrical fruit.
* year-round job.