dairy farm
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dairy farm
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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In Wisconsin, dairy farms are smaller, herds are smaller, and cows are usually sent out to pasture to graze in good weather, which is not easy to come by in Wisconsin.
From Los Angeles Times
Tanner grew up on an Idaho dairy farm, the fifth of eight children.
Then Bus 6 was assigned to take the third grade to a dairy farm to study cows, and Ollie Herdman refused to go.
From Literature
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At a glance, the 400 acres of soybeans on the Preston family's dairy farm in southern Michigan appear no different from any other field in the region.
From Science Daily
There was a rodeo announcer from Idaho, a Kansan whose family owns a dairy farm, and a retired government worker who auctioned spectrum for the Federal Communications Commission.
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