diversified farming

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

As tobacco gave way to diversified farming, wheat and flour comprised two of Alexandria's major commodities of trade, and enforcement of the flour inspection and marking laws became an important governmental function.

From The Fairfax County Courthouse by Netherton, Ross De Witt