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A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family; it is sometimes considered to be an estate passed down by inheritance. It contrasts with farms operated as collectives, trusts, non-family corporations or in other institutionalised forms.
The concept or definition does not easily translate across languages or cultures, as there are substantial differences in the agricultural traditions and histories between countries. Thus, in the United States, a family farm can be of any size, while in Brazil, the official definition of a family farm (agricultura familiar) is limited to small farms worked primarily by members of a single family.
At least 500 million of the world's [estimated] 570 million farms are managed by families, making family farms predominant in global agriculture.
Usage examples of "family farm".
For instance, a family farm might produce enough to support six people.
Admittedly he is just one farmer, but the same philosophy has run his family farm for over a hundred years and run it at a profit.
It had taken three more years to make his peace and realize that the family farm was where he wanted to be.
Duncan's family farm is nearly five hundred miles behind the lines.
After all, he cost you the family farm and a good dose of your dignity five years ago.
There was also a separate sheet which indicated that confidential letters could be addressed to John Whipple and President Day at Yale, to several Christian citizens at Marlboro, Massachusetts, and to Abner's sister Esther on the family farm.
After his father died, he'd dropped out of school at twelve to run the family farm, and had educated himself.
Or perhaps more correctly, months before the appointed time when his father was going to hand over the reins of the family farm.
And if Pappy thought we'd one day return to our little places on the family farm and start another crop, he was mistaken.