crop farming
Growing plants commercially
Crop farming is the agricultural practice of cultivating plants for food, fiber, or other products—as distinguished from raising livestock.
The term emphasizes the growing of crops like wheat, corn, or cotton rather than animal husbandry: The region shifted from ranching to crop farming when irrigation became available.
- barleyGrain for malt
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- cultivatorSoil-turning implement
- soil erosionLoss of topsoil
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
plow · hoe · maize · agroecology · rice · amber waves · seed drill · intercropping · tillage · pest management · farm subsidies · monoculture · sustainable agriculture · tractor · family farm · hydroponics · germination · food security
- farmingfarm, farms, harvest, harvests, harvesting
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farmhouses, pastoral
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, milking
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- rural Americanafarm, church, covered bridges, country stores, grange
- Latin American farminghaciendas, maize, cacao, bananas, coffee farms
crop farminglivestock farming
Breeding animals for food
animal husbandry · ranching · cattle ranching · pastoralism · sheep farming
crop farmingwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
urban development · wildland · industrialization · mining · urbanization
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