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combined arable and livestock farming (on mixed farms)

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How to use mixed farming in a sentence

The conditions are in most places best suited to mixed farming; the chief crops raised are wheat, oats, potatoes and hay.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
At first it seemed to be given to mixed farming a good deal; afterwards to wheat, oats, and barley.
Letters from America|Rupert Brooke
Provision has been made by the Legislature for all kinds of settlement—purely agricultural, mixed farming, and grazing.
Our First Half-Century|Government of Queensland
Reports from Assiniboia seem to show that the one hope this season will be mixed farming and the neglect of cereals.
The Impostor|Harold Bindloss

On every farm all wants had to be supplied from local resources, so that mixed farming was the rule.
Quaker Hill|Warren H. Wilson