farming
Growing food professionally
Farming is the practice of cultivating land and raising animals for food, fiber, or other products.
The word covers everything from small family operations to industrial agriculture.
Beyond agriculture, farming describes any systematic harvesting: wind farming, fish farming, click farming.
To farm out work is to delegate it to others.
Agricultural pulling vehicle
- plowTool for turning soil
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
- combineMerge, or harvesting machine
- seederAgricultural sowing apparatus
tiller · cultivator · baler · irrigator · sprayer · mower · spreader · hoe
Ground matter for planting
- fieldArea of specialty
- acreageAmount of land owned
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- paddockSmall fenced animal enclosure
meadow · pastureland · tillable · arable · fallow · terraces · irrigation channels · drainage
From living matter
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- biodynamicAgriculture following cosmic cycles
- agroforestryTrees integrated with farming
biodiversity · composting · soil health · water conservation · pollinators · crop rotation · no-till · green manure
Managing animal groups
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
- poultryBirds raised for food
swine · husbandry · pasture · ranching · dairy · breeding · milking · shepherding
Turning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
fertilizing · transplanting · hoeing · seedbed · germination · weeding · pruning · mulching
Rural area beyond towns
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- agrarianRelating to land cultivation
- bucolicIdyllically rural
- rusticRural and unrefined
village · provincial · peasantry · homesteading · subsistence · country living
Crop and soil science
- horticultureCultivating plants systematically
- soil scienceStudy of earth's surface layer
- hydroponicsPlant cultivation in nutrient water
- aquaponicsFish-plant water farming
tissue culture · selective breeding · pest management · photosynthesis · germplasm · cultivar · field trials
tractor
Agricultural pulling vehicle
seeder · tiller · cultivator · baler · irrigator · sprayer · mower · spreader · hoe · sickle
soil
Ground matter for planting
paddock · meadow · pastureland · tillable · arable · fallow · terraces · irrigation channels · drainage · contour
organic
From living matter
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- biodynamicAgriculture following cosmic cycles
agroforestry · biodiversity · composting · soil health · water conservation · pollinators · crop rotation · no-till · green manure · carbon sequestration
herding
Managing animal groups
poultry · swine · husbandry · pasture · ranching · dairy · breeding · milking · shepherding · feedlot
plowing
Turning earth for crops
irrigation · fertilizing · transplanting · hoeing · seedbed · germination · weeding · pruning · mulching · composting
countryside
Rural area beyond towns
rustic · village · provincial · peasantry · homesteading · subsistence · country living
agronomy
Crop and soil science
- horticultureCultivating plants systematically
- soil scienceStudy of earth's surface layer
- hydroponicsPlant cultivation in nutrient water
aquaponics · tissue culture · selective breeding · pest management · photosynthesis · germplasm · cultivar · field trials
reaping
Cutting crops for collection
gathering · gleaning · yield · bounty · produce · fruiting · husking · grain · bundling · drying
- food productioncheese making, crops, wine production, livestock, olive oil
- human-environment interactionfishing, hunting, mining, logging, pollution
- industriesbusiness, factories, education, health, supply chain
- manual laborlifting, carrying, shoveling, loading, unloading
- rural lifevillage, villages, pastoral, hamlets, cottages
- Rural Village Lifeharvest, plowing, seeds, crops, livestock
farminghunting and gathering
Nomadic food acquisition method
foraging · hunter-gathering · hunting · gathering · fishing
farmingurbanization
Population shift toward cities
urban · metropolitan · city · metro · urban development
farmingmanufacturing
Industrial product creation
industry · nonagricultural · factory work · office work · industrialization
- livestock farmingBreeding animals for food
- factory farmingIntensive livestock production system
- organic farmingCultivation without synthetic chemicals
- dairy farmingLivestock husbandry for milk
- traditional farmingAge-old cultivation methods
- farming townSettlement built around agriculture
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