mixed farming
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- noun
- /mɪkst ˈfɑrmɪŋ/
- Specialized
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agricultura mixta
- Private and state-owned peatlands have been extensively drained, with land being reclaimed for mixed farming activities and Sitka spruce afforestation.
Examples
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Most of the residents were peasants who practiced a system of mixed farming: potatoes and corn for private use, and milk and butter for the rapidly growing urban centers in Belgium, western North Brabant, and Germany.
Academic text (1992) -
Our family practices mixed farming of cattle and citrus.
Blog text (21) -
I'm currently a full time farmer and I was raised on a mixed farm that included many cattle.
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Today, mountain communities are no longer characterized by mixed farming and herding.
Academic text (1990) -
Milton's mixed farming strategy generated the highest return to farm labor input from annual cropping.
Academic text (1994) -
"Mixed farming is real farming," declared Northbourne, continuing his anti-modern diatribe against the industrialization of agriculture.
Blog text (34) -
However, after 1923, the BSAC considered Rhodesdale to have been sufficiently "tamed by the running of large stock" that the company decided to sell it to individual farmers and private companies for mixed farming and ranching purposes.
Academic text (2005) -
Seasonally, however, some still manage to find areas of alternate grazing and browsing for their livestock, thus forestalling the overgrazing so often associated with mixed farming in Africa.
Academic text (1994) -
Since 1969, Brian Barrett, who manages Kyneton Kompost, has been involved in a mixed farming enterprise on 600 acres of land near the headwaters of the Coliban-Campaspe river system in Malvern, Australia.
Academic text (2000) -
Our family practices mixed farming, cultivating vegetables alongside raising livestock like sheep and chickens.
Synonyms
A farming system where crops, animals, and the land interact as one whole
Antonyms
How Mixed
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a system of farming in which crops and livestock are raised together' is directly derivable from combining 'mixed' (consisting of a mixture) with 'farming' (cultivating crops and raising animals); the compound simply labels a mixed type of farming. This compositional, cross-linguistically common noun compound follows normal English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mixed farming comes from farms where mixed means 'together' and farming means 'growing food', because people kept crops and animals on the same land. The animals gave manure to help the fields and the crops fed the animals, so today mixed farming means 'to raise crops and livestock together'.