commercial farmer
Market-oriented grower
A commercial farmer raises crops or livestock primarily for sale rather than personal consumption.
The term distinguishes large-scale, market-oriented agriculture from subsistence farming, where families grow food mainly to feed themselves.
Commercial farmers typically operate with profit margins, market prices, and distribution networks in mind: Commercial farmers in the region switched to soybeans when corn prices dropped.
- agribusinessCommercial farming sector
- large scaleOf great extent
- harvestGathering mature crops
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- cash cropProduce grown for sale
tractor · livestock · acreage · yield · crop rotation · irrigation · commodity · grain · soybeans · wheat · cattle · ranch · land · profit · bulk buyer · export · machinery · pesticide
commercial farmersubsistence farmer
Grower producing for household consumption
peasant farmer · smallholder · homesteader · peasant · crofter
commercial farmerfarmhand
Agricultural employee
farm laborer · agricultural worker · sharecropper · tenant farmer · farm worker
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