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diversified farming

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noun

  1. the practice of producing a variety of crops or animals, or both, on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single commodity.


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Another was a great impulse towards diversified farming and more scientific methods.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Secretary said that he aims to turn over many acres of cotton, tobacco and wheat lands to diversified farming.

From Time Magazine Archive

North Dakota is rapidly forging to the front as a highly diversified farming State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Culver, a prominent local citizen and practitioner of diversified farming, his handsome daughter, Miss Tansy Culver, two young sons, and Mr. Culver’s sister-in-law, Miss Singleterry, who was flung some distance off the tailgate.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Like many other Fairfax County farmers, Fountain Beattie found that he was better off to abandon diversified farming in favor of crops with respect to which he still enjoyed natural advantages.

From Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia by Netherton, Nan

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