dry farming

American  

noun

1. dryland farming.

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dry farming British  

noun

1. a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• dry farmer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of dry farming

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Cirone carries on these traditions while planting new trees, pruning, and practicing dry farming methods.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

If water is available, Woolf is looking at using drip irrigation for faster-growing, sugarier plants rather than the dry farming typically done in Mexico.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023

Mr Smith uses dry farming techniques, meaning many of his vines are not irrigated.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2023

Some Hopi leaders say the tribe should do everything it can to preserve dry farming, a tribal tradition in which crops grow despite scant rainfall through drought-resistant seeds, small fields and terraced gardens.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2021

Other areas are deficient in moisture, and where this deficiency is so great as to prohibit the growing of agricultural crops by dry farming it is useless to attempt growing trees without irrigation.

From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson