farming
Americannoun
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the business of operating a farm.
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the practice of letting or leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection.
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Origin of farming
Explanation
Farming is the act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing edible plants. You can also describe raising animals for milk or meat as farming. Farming is a great way to describe the lifestyle and work of people whose jobs are in the agriculture industry. People often have a romantic idea of what farming is like — roosters crowing, farmers driving tractors and milking goats — although farming can be very hard work, dependent on food prices and weather. The noun farm originally meant "a lease on farm land," and it comes from the Medieval Latin firma, "fixed payment."
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The incident came one day after police and soldiers cleared a key road linking La Paz to farming communities.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
The regenerative farming ideas are hardly new, even on screen: “Groundswell” is the third in a trilogy by the Tickells, following “Kiss the Ground” and “Common Ground.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Other central issues for voters were animal rights, the high level of pesticides in drinking water because of pig farming, and agriculture's climate footprint overall.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Now he’s worried that if he doesn’t find the right ways to lower fertilizer and other farming input costs, his bottom line will suffer again.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Since farming created the conditions for swift demographic growth, farmers could usually overcome foragers by sheer weight of numbers.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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