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Agricultural Science

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This article is about the trial event currently being run in the 2024-25 season. For the creative concept run in the 2021 season, see Agribio.

Agricultural Science (also known as Agriscience) is a trial event in both divisions for the 2022, 2023, and 2024 seasons. It centers around the understanding of agriculture, including but not limited to the related chemistry and environmental interactions. The topic rotates on a one year cycle between plants and animals. Additionally, teams must perform an experiment of their choosing on plants and submit a completed notebook detailing the process and results.

Notebook

For the National Tournament, teams are to impound the notebook at around 10 am as directed. Most notebooks are thin college-ruled spiral notebooks which are hand-written, but printed notebooks may deduct points if teams are to compete for a tiebreaker.

Important Notes

Remember to add at least three pictures of both team members working together with their plants. If the required pictures are missing and/or the experiment is unrelated to agriculture, the notebook will not be scored. All other parts (A, D) will be scored as normal.

It's best to also add pictures of the materials, setup, results, and stages of the experiment over time so the event supervisor can get a visual feel of how you're doing things.

Remember that the experiment/notebook counts for around 50% of your score! (the other 50% is split between Parts A and B of the written test)

Abstract

This is the tl:dr of your experiment and should be no more than 6 sentences in length. It should include an introduction and general overview of what you did in your project.

Example: Seeds can grow into the big, beautiful trees and plants we see every day. The purpose of this experiment is to see which liquid out of 6 liquids (water, rice water, salt water, citric acid, milk, sugar water) would germinate the most successful bean sprouts. The results were found by diluting the solutions in a 1:1 ratio of water to the liquid and watering each of the bean seeds with those solutions and seeing which liquid would germinate the most successful bean sprouts. The results revealed that water is the best liquid to germinate bean seeds and that gardeners have been right about their liquids all along.

Background Research

This is not required in the rules manual for Nationals, but it is always good to include some research on what your experiment is on. Typically this should be 3-4 Google Doc pages long (font 12, double-spaced, excluding APA in-text citations); imagine that you are explaining your experiment to your grandparents and they need to know what you are talking about.

Building off of the example above, you would include the stages of bean plant germination, composition of the liquids and their benefits on growth, etc.

Sample Questions

Animal Rotation / Year 2

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  • Typically, what is the gestation period for cattle?
  • What is your hypothesis, and why did you choose it?
  • What is the independent variable in the graph, and what is it measured in?
  • Which of the following is the term for a female cattle not given birth to a calf?
    • Heifer
    • Stevemartin
    • Freemartin
    • Ram
  • What is the name for a female sheep?
  • What is another name for the cow plague?

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