farm
noun
a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
are farming
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present progressiveof farm.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“The way we are farming has gone back to how my granddad would have done it,” Bubb said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
"Nearly all – 95% – of California farmers are farming conventionally. Only 5% is organically farmed. With pesticides, this scale is important."
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2023
A third of food produced globally is wasted, while many of the world’s hungriest people are farming cash crops such as flowers and tobacco, the students say.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020
Fast forward a few million years to what looks like the American Northwest, where two apatosaurs are farming the land, tilling the soil with honest sweat and giant noses.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2015
Yes, we still have some over nine hundred acres in the place, but we are farming only about two hundred acres, including the meadow and pasture land.
From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins
