Looking After Crops
Click on the following crops for a detailed description.
| Grass | Maize | Wheat | Barley | |
| Oats | Rape | Flax | Lupin | Soya |
Lots of different crops are grown on the farm but the crop that covers the greatest area of the UK is grass. As well as the green grass you expect to see in a field or in the garden plants such as wheat, barley and oats are also types of grass.
Grass like plants are among the most versatile life forms. Plants having grass-like structures have existed for millions of years, providing fodder for dinosaurs, whose fossilised dung contains grasses that include the ancestors of rice and bamboo. Grasses have adapted to conditions in lush rain forests, dry deserts, and cold mountain steppes, and are now the most widespread plant type.
