dry farming
Origin of dry farming
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How to use dry farming in a sentence
These lands can be successfully farmed only by means of irrigation or by so-called dry farming methods.
For, to our thinking, Jethro Tull bears the same relation to dry-farming that Mendel does to plant-breeding.
Makers of Modern Agriculture | William MacdonaldAs the natural range showed inroads of the new industry, dry-farming was introduced, the chief crops being forage for winter feed.
North Dakota | VariousSome dry farming is carried on in every section of each county.
The Church on the Changing Frontier | Helen O. BelknapSo I think we want all the acres put in cultivation by irrigation or dry farming.
British Dictionary definitions for dry farming
a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
Derived forms of dry farming
- dry farmer, noun
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