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dairying

dairying

1 5.3
A business that produces milk and makes milk products on a farm
  • noun
  • /ˈdɛəriɪŋ/
translation icon : producción de lácteos
  • Regardless of the type of operator, dairying has almost disappeared from the northern third of Wisconsin and is beating a steady retreat in southeastern Wisconsin.
  • Amish dairying
  • towns with dairying

Examples

  • The number of towns without any dairying grew by nearly three-fifths between 1989 and 1999.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Today, the area is fairly closely settled by beef, dairying, and vegetable farmers.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Small farms of 32 to 40 ha were sold for dairying.

    Academic text (1990)

  • These were also farmers who were moving into dairying and who required more pasture land for their cattle.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Put the time into dairying, don't bother with a big garden, or pigs or turkeys; it's quicker and more efficient to buy your food.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The decline in dairying and the increasing practice of feeding cows indoors year-round suggest less apple volunteering in the future.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Large new dairy operations have been established both where large-scale dairying to supply nearby urban markets had been long established and in areas that, as recently as 1997, lacked any dairying.

    Academic text (2006)

  • During its twenty-five years of operation, students were instructed in agriculture, cotton and poultry production, dairying, home economics, carpentry, and woodworking, as well as in basic English, math, and science.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The relationship between the Amish and dairying not only exists in the oldest Amish communities but has been a factor in the establishment of new settlements (Luthy 1994; Miller 2002b).

    Academic text (2006)

  • The startup cost of equipment for dairying will vary based on whether you choose to hand-milk or use a mechanical milker.

Synonyms

dairy farming
vsdairying
1 2.7

Keeping cows to produce milk and cheese

focuses on managing milk production and processing rather than just keeping animals

Surface Forms

dairying singular
dairies plural

Morphology

dairying = dairy (transparent) = dairy + ing

The word is transparently formed from 'dairy' + '-ing' to denote the activity or practice associated with a dairy.

Etymology

Dairying comes from the simpler word dairy, which originally meant a 'place for milk' and the people who work with milk. So dairying is the work or business of running a dairy — looking after cows, producing milk, and making things like cheese and butter.