Farming (disambiguation)
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A farm
is a section of land dedicated to agriculture
. Farming, then, is the practice of
cultivating crops or livestock on a farm.
Farming may also refer to:
Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
is a section of land dedicated to agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
. Farming, then, is the practice of
cultivating crops or livestock on a farm.
Farming may also refer to:
- Gold farmingGold farmingGold farming is playing a massively multiplayer online game to acquire in-game currency which is then sold to other players. People in China and in other developing nations have held full-time employment as gold farmers....
, the act of gathering in-game currency and items in a massively multiplayer online game to sell for (real world) money. - The Farming GameThe Farming GameThe Farming Game is a board game simulating the economics of a small farm. Published in 1979, it was designed by George Rohrbacher, a rancher in Washington State. The Farming Game painfully reflects the real life difficulties of running a farm...
, an economic simulation of running a farm. - Baby-farmingBaby-farmingBaby farming was a term used in late-Victorian Era Britain to mean the taking in of an infant or child for payment; if the infant was young, this usually included wet-nursing . Some baby farmers "adopted" children for lump-sum payments, while others cared for infants for periodic payments...
was a term used in Victorian Britain to mean the taking-in of an infant or child for payment. - Factory farmingFactory farmingFactory farming is a term referring to the process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density, where a farm operates as a factory — a practice typical in industrial farming by agribusinesses. The main products of this industry are meat, milk and eggs for human consumption...
is a term used to describe a set of often controversial practices in large-scale, intensive livestock farming. - Tax farmingTax farmingFarming is a technique of financial management, namely the process of commuting , by its assignment by legal contract to a third party, a future uncertain revenue stream into fixed and certain periodic rents, in consideration for which commutation a discount in value received is suffered...
is the privatization of tax collection. - The term "farming out to" refers to outsourcingOutsourcingOutsourcing is the process of contracting a business function to someone else.-Overview:The term outsourcing is used inconsistently but usually involves the contracting out of a business function - commonly one previously performed in-house - to an external provider...
. - Compassion In World FarmingCompassion In World FarmingCompassion in World Farming is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation, with headquarters in the UK, branches in eight European countries and international representatives in China, Australia and South Africa...
is a European animal welfare organization.