corporate farming
Big business agriculture
Corporate farming refers to agricultural operations owned or controlled by large corporations rather than individual farmers or families.
The term often carries critical connotations, suggesting industrialized methods, consolidation of farmland, and displacement of traditional family farms: Corporate farming has transformed the rural Midwest.
Also called agribusiness when emphasizing the business aspects of large-scale agriculture.
- agribusinessCommercial farming sector
- monocultureSingle-crop agricultural system
- cash cropProduce grown for sale
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- feedlotLivestock fattening enclosure
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- food issuesfood additives, food labeling, food waste, GMOs, pesticides
- agribusinessagribusiness, farms, factory farms, agro-industry, cash crops
- GMOsgolden rice, GMO soy, GMO seeds, genetic modification, genetically modified
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Agriculture by related households
family farm · smallholder farming · small-scale farming · peasant farming · homesteading
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Cultivation without synthetic chemicals
sustainable agriculture · permaculture · agroecology · traditional farming · polyculture
corporate farmingsubsistence farming
Growing food for household
subsistence agriculture · cooperative farming · collective farming · communal farming · agrarianism
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