Crossword clues for farming
farming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
farming
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a farming community
▪ a small farming community of about 1,000 inhabitants
a farming method
▪ Farming methods have changed a lot over the last 100 years.
factory farming
fur farming (=keeping and killing animals for their fur)
▪ a ban on fur farming
mixed farming
organic farming (=farming without using artificial chemicals)
▪ the environmental benefits of organic farming
walking/riding/farming etc country
▪ To the east is an area of rich farming country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
arable
▪ The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming.
▪ These were in contrast to upland permanent pasture, where arable farming could only be undertaken infrequently, in special circumstances.
▪ It was no accident that a good many towns were sited on the borderline between arable farming and pastoral regions.
▪ The hedgerows and pasture where the owls hunt their prey are disappearing as farmers create bigger fields for intensive arable farming.
▪ In the best cereal-growing areas, arable farming may dominate the scene, with animals and grass taking second place.
▪ In the steepest, wettest areas, stock-rearing takes complete precedence, and little, if any, arable farming is undertaken.
▪ Local drainage authorities have continued to lower water levels for intensive arable and cattle farming despite warnings from environmentalists.
commercial
▪ But throughout Britain the system is one of commercial farming.
▪ In addition to such high and non-liquid capital assets the investment requirements of modern commercial farming are considerable.
intensive
▪ The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming.
▪ They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
▪ Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
▪ Yet it was clear that intensive farming was not possible on the poor Pomeranian soil.
▪ The hedgerows and pasture where the owls hunt their prey are disappearing as farmers create bigger fields for intensive arable farming.
▪ The current landscape of the site is bleak, suffering from the effects of intensive farming.
▪ In addition to spray drift, intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora.
▪ A countryside under intensive farming which depends on leisure and service industries is a cosmetic, lifeless countryside.
modern
▪ In addition to such high and non-liquid capital assets the investment requirements of modern commercial farming are considerable.
▪ One may doubt whether modern farming has any useful purpose nowadays when everybody is on a diet.
▪ The difficulty here is that modern methods of farming are highly intensive and sometimes artificial.
organic
▪ The foundation will also research and develop organic farming techniques.
▪ Some farmers are likely to achieve this by converting to organic farming.
▪ In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming.
▪ It is now open to the public as a prize example of how well organic farming can function.
▪ These groups believe that both the Set Aside and Beef Extensification schemes could go one step further and encourage organic farming.
▪ Like organic farming: it was small potatoes.
▪ But as organic farming burgeons, so greater controls on the use of the word are to be introduced.
▪ The most popular method or organic farming is using a multi-culture system in which crops are grown and livestock reared.
traditional
▪ The decline in revenue from traditional farming means that farmers must diversify.
▪ The goods are the traditional end-products of farming.
▪ A few farmers have adhered to or returned to more traditional methods of farming.
■ NOUN
community
▪ The Minister said nothing today that will reassure the farming community.
▪ I can not tell the farming community that this will be a short negotiation.
▪ Yet most mines are interspersed with farming communities.
factory
▪ Criticisms of factory farming have been rehearsed often enough.
▪ Primary education isn't some form of factory farming based on controlled diets of programmes of study and attainment targets.
industry
▪ The farming industry needs to inform the public about all aspects of their industry and open these up to public discussion.
▪ The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes perannum in 1990.
▪ The oyster farming industry, already hit by recession, would face extinction should the proposals be implemented.
▪ The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
▪ The hon. Gentleman has ceased to have any credibility in the farming industry.
▪ As has been said before, there is a general gloom about the farming industry.
method
▪ The introduction of a new support system to encourage public access and conservation-friendly farming methods.
▪ Modern farming methods, particularly in arable crop fields, were thought to be responsible for the declines.
▪ The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods.
▪ They consider that unless the farming methods are tackled, no clothing industry can claim that its product is ecologically sound.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
country/farming etc folk
▪ Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
▪ Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
▪ Sadly, country folk have caught on.
▪ The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
▪ The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
▪ The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk.
▪ Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.
intensive farming/agriculture
▪ About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
▪ Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
▪ Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
▪ The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
▪ The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
▪ They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
▪ They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
▪ We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
subsistence farming/agriculture etc
▪ In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
▪ It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
▪ It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years, surviving on subsistence farming.
▪ Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
▪ She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
▪ The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
▪ This vast, dispersed rural workforce would need, and would receive, only the education needed for manual subsistence farming.
▪ Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints.
▪ In the wettest and wildest parts of the marshes, fishing and fowling replaced more organized farming.
▪ Livestock Livestock farming has been seriously affected by the need to produce so much so quickly.
▪ No wonder they had let the army take over this area; it was worth nothing for farming.
▪ Originally North Dalton was a self-supporting agricultural village with farming being the only means of employment.
▪ She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
▪ They found that the proposals would result in net farming incomes falling by an estimated £11,000 or £12,000.
▪ They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farming
Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]
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To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
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To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
To farm their subjects and their duties toward these.
--Burke. To take at a certain rent or rate.
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To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.
Farming
Farming \Farm"ing\, a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
Farming
Farming \Farm"ing\, n. The business of cultivating land.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
farming
1590s, "action of farming out, practice of letting or leasing taxes, etc., for collection," verbal noun from farm (v.). Meaning "business of cultivating land, husbandry" is attested by 1733.
Wiktionary
farming
1 Pertaining to the agricultural business. 2 Raising livestock or fish. n. 1 The business of cultivate land, raising stocks etc. 2 (rfdef: English) v
(present participle of farm English)
WordNet
farming
adj. relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" [syn: agrarian, agricultural, farming(a)]
farming
n. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: agriculture, husbandry]
working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" [syn: land]
Wikipedia
Farming (disambiguation)
Farming is the practice of cultivating crops or livestock on a farm.
Farming may also refer to:
- Farming (video gaming), performing repetitious tasks in video game to acquire items in the game
- Gold farming, the act of gathering in-game currency and items in a massively multiplayer online game to sell for (real world) money
- Baby farming, a practice in Victorian Britain involving the taking-in of an infant or child for payment
- Tax farming, the privatization of tax collection
Usage examples of "farming".
The first occupation to suffer seriously because of the Africans oul ere was farming.
One of the strongest impressions I had gained when I first came into country practice was that farming was the hardest way of all of making a living, and now I was finding out for myself.