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tank farming

n. a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients [syn: hydroponics, aquiculture]

Usage examples of "tank farming".

But now, with tank farming destroying the value of land, a man can buy a huge acreage in the country for less than he could a city lot forty years ago.

They run us off our farms with this tank farming of theirs but they ain't going to run us any farther.

I'd say, yes it can if it had to be and anyway tank farming's better.