mixed farming

British  

noun

1. combined arable and livestock farming (on mixed farms )

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Example Sentences

Ms Batters, who runs a mixed farming business in Wiltshire, acknowledged that "agriculture is always the last chapter in any trade deal to be ratified" because of the compromises often involved.

From BBC

Provision has been made by the Legislature for all kinds of settlement—purely agricultural, mixed farming, and grazing.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, Harding saw that a time was coming when mixed farming produce, which he called truck, would be in strong demand; and it was his custom to anticipate a need.

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Coarse grains for feeding purposes are beginning to predominate with the advent of mixed farming.

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There was a very poor show of chaff-cutters and root-pulpers, because our farming friends here have not yet required these indispensable aids to mixed farming and succession of crops.

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