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farm




1 buildings and land
2 the work of a farm
3 animals
4 crops
the countryside
COUNTRY
see also ANIMAL, FOOD

1 buildings and land
- an area of land and buildings used for growing crops and keeping animals: farm
- the house on a farm where the farmer lives: farmhouse
- an outside area near a farmhouse that is surrounded by buildings and walls: farmyard
- a large building on a farm in which crops or animals are kept: barn
- a building on a farm used for animals: shed
a cowshed the milking sheds
- a building where milk is kept and butter and cheese are made: dairy
- land that is used for growing crops or keeping animals: farmland (noun U)
- an area of land on a farm, used for growing crops or keeping animals: field
- a field or an area of land on a farm where grass is grown to feed cows: pasture (noun C/U)
- a large area of land, usually in a tropical country, where a crop like tea, cotton or tobacco is grown: plantation
a coffee/cotton/banana plantation
※ more on fields FIELD

2 the work of a farm
- to use land for growing crops or keeping animals: farm (sth)
Who farms the land around the village?
- the work or business of keeping or managing a farm: farming (noun U), (formal) agriculture (noun U); adjective: agricultural
the farming industry mixed farming (= producing both animals and crops)
the Ministry of Agriculture agricultural land
- a person who owns or manages a farm: farmer
- a person who works on a farm: farm worker, farm labourer
- crops, animals and dairy products produced on a farm: produce (noun U)
agricultural produce

3 animals
- a farm which keeps cows and produces mainly milk and milk products: dairy farm; the work or business of keeping or managing a dairy farm: dairy farming (noun U)
- a large area of farm land, especially in America, where cows and horses are kept: ranch; the work or business of keeping or managing a ranch: ranching (noun U)
a cattle ranch
- a farm where pigs are kept: pig farm
- a farm where sheep are kept: sheep farm
- a person who looks after sheep: shepherd
- animals on a farm: livestock (noun U)
- to give an animal food: feed* sth (on sth)
We're having to feed our pigs on apples and cabbages!
- food that is given to farm animals: feed (noun U)
cattle feed
- a long narrow container from which farm animals eat and drink: trough
- grass which has been cut and dried and is used for feeding animals: hay (noun U)
- dried stems of wheat plants which are used for animals to sleep on: straw (noun U)
※ farm animals BIRD 2, COW, HORSE, PIG, SHEEP

4 crops
- plants that are grown on a farm for food: crop (usually plural)
The main crops are oats and barley.
- a farm where crops are grown: arable farm; the work or business of keeping or managing an arable farm: arable farming (noun U)
- to prepare land to grow crops: cultivate sth
to cultivate the soil
- to put seeds, etc in the ground to grow crops: sow* sth
to sow a field with wheat Have they sown the potatoes yet?
- to supply land and crops with water through pipes, channels, etc: irrigate sth; noun (U): irrigation
- to put natural or artificial substances on land to make it more fertile: fertilize sth; a substance used for fertilizing: fertilizer (noun U)
- to cut or pick crops when they are ready: harvest (sth); the work of harvesting, or the time when this is done: harvest
- the crops that have been gathered in: harvest
a good/bad harvest
- a large vehicle that is used for heavy work on farms: tractor
- a machine which is pulled along by a tractor to break up and turn over the soil: plough (AmE plow)
- to break up and turn over the soil before planting crops: plough (AmE plow)(sth)
- a machine that cuts corn and separates seeds from the stem: combine, combine harvester
- a crop which is grown to produce seeds which are made into flour, etc: cereal crop
- some common cereal crops: wheat (noun U), barley (noun U), maize (noun U), rice (noun U)
- a general word for crops such as wheat: corn (noun U)
- seeds obtained from corn: grain (noun U)
an increase in exports of grain
- a single seed of corn: grain
a grain of wheat
- the top part of a plant that produces grains: ear
an ear of corn
- the hard part at the top of a maize plant, on which the grains grow: (corn) cob, cob
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- keeping farm animals in such a way as to make them produce as much as possible: factory farming (noun U)
- methods of farming which use chemicals, etc in order to produce as much as possible: intensive farming (noun U)
- methods of farming which do not use artificial chemicals: organic farming (noun U)

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