corporate farms
Big agriculture operations
Corporate farms are large-scale agricultural operations owned by corporations rather than individual families or small partnerships.
The term often carries critical connotations, suggesting industrial methods, absentee ownership, and prioritizing profit over land stewardship: Corporate farms have replaced family operations across the Midwest.
Also called factory farms when the emphasis is on intensive livestock production.
- agribusinessCommercial farming sector
- monocultureSingle-crop agricultural system
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- feedlotsCattle finishing facilities
- pesticidesChemicals destroying harmful organisms
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- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, milking, tilling
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Kin-run agricultural operations
smallholdings · family-owned farms · homesteads · cooperative farms · subsistence farms
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Limited-acreage agricultural operations
subsistence farms · organic farms · sustainable farms · smallholdings · traditional farms
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Limited-acreage agricultural operations
smallholdings · market gardens · truck farms · local farms · urban farms
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