farm1 nounfarm2 verb
farmfarm1 /fɑːm $ fɑːrm/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINfarm1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French ferme ‘rent, lease’, from Latin firmus ‘firm, fixed’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a farm in southern Alberta
- After a while Bathsheba said goodnight to her farm workers, and closed the sitting-room door and windows.
- Any herbs that are added are also organically produced on the farm.
- Get an insight into life on the farm past and present.
- In other words, it is compensation for assets financed from the farm overheads.
- Instead of killing these families, they decided to construct an ant farm for them.
- It was the equivalent of the labor of migrant farm laborers.
THESAURUS
an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals: · a 300-hectare farm· a dairy farm· a sheep farm
a very large farm in the western US, Canada, or South America where sheep, cattle, or horses are bred: · a cattle ranch in Wyoming
British English a piece of land used for farming, that is smaller than an ordinary farm: · a smallholding used for organic farming
a large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar are grown: · a rubber plantation· a tea plantation
a piece of land for farming that was given to people in the past by the US and Canadian governments: · He still farms on the family homestead, a hundred years after his grandfather received it.
American English informal an area of land used for farming or ranching: · They have a pretty big spread just south of the Canadian border.
an area of land, often with greenhouses on it, used for growing vegetables and fruit: · He runs his own market garden, and sells his produce to the big supermarkets.
an area of land with trees, used for growing fruit: · an apple orchard· cherry orchards
British English a small area of land of land, especially in a town or city, which you can use for growing your own vegetables.The land is usually owned by the local council, who charge a very low rent: · We grew the tomatoes on our allotment.
the practice of farming: · More than 75% of the land is used for agriculture.
adjective relating to growing crops: · a lack of arable land
WORD SETSagrarian, adjectiveagribusiness, nounagro-, prefixagro-industry, nounanimal husbandry, nounanimal rights, nounartificial insemination, nounbale, nounbale, verbbarn, nounbarnyard, nounbattery, nounbiotechnology, nounbreadbasket, nounbreed, verbbreeding, nounbroiler, nounbroiler chicken, nounBSE, nounbuckaroo, nounbull, nounbutcher, verbbyre, nouncapon, nouncattleman, nouncattle market, nouncattle prod, nounchaff, nounchicken, nounchicken run, nouncollective farm, nouncoop, nounco-op, nouncorral, nouncorral, verbcowboy, nouncowgirl, nouncowhand, nouncowpoke, nouncreamery, nouncroft, nouncrofter, nouncrofting, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, noundairy, noundairy cattle, noundairy farm, noundairymaid, noundairyman, nounDDT, noundip, verbdip, noundirt farmer, noundrover, noundry-stone wall, noundude ranch, nounDutch barn, nounextensive agriculture, factory farming, nounfallow, adjectivefarm, nounfarm, verbfarmer, nounfarmhand, nounfarmhouse, nounfarming, nounfarmland, nounfarmstead, nounfarmyard, nounfeedstock, nounfield, nounfishery, nounfish farm, nounfish meal, nounflail, verbflail, nounfleece, nounfodder, nounfold, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounforage, nounfowl, nounfree-range, adjectivefungicide, noungamekeeper, noungeld, verbgenetically modified, adjectivegentleman farmer, nounGM, adjectivegoatherd, noungraft, noungraft, verbgranary, noungreenhouse, noungreen revolution, nounGreen Revolution, nounhacienda, nounharrow, nounhatchery, nounhayloft, nounhaymaking, nounhaystack, nounheifer, nounhen house, nounherbicide, nounherd, nounherd, verbherdsman, nounhigh-yield, adjectivehired hand, nounhomestead, nounhomestead, verbhopper, nounhorticulture, nounhusbandry, nounhutch, nouninsecticide, nounintensive agriculture, irrigate, verbJersey, nounkibbutz, nounlamb, verbland agent, nounlasso, nounlasso, verblift, verblitter, nounlivestock, nounlonghorn, nounmad cow disease, nounmanure, nounmeat, nounmerino, nounmilk, nounmilk churn, nounmilking machine, nounmilking parlour, nounmilkmaid, nounmixed farming, nounmower, nounmuck, nounmuckheap, nounnursery, nounoast house, nounorangery, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic farming, paddock, nounpaddy, nounpasturage, nounpasture, nounpasture, verbpastureland, nounpen, nounperpendicular, adjectivepest, nounpesticide, nounpiggery, nounpigpen, nounpigsty, nounpigswill, nounpitchfork, nounplantation, nounplanter, nounplough, nounplough, verbploughboy, nounploughman, nounploughshare, nounpoultry, nounproducer, nounpullet, nounPYO, raise, verbranch, nounrancher, nounranching, nounrange, nounranger, nounrear, verbrick, nounrubber, nounrun, nounrustle, verbscarecrow, nounscythe, nounsharecropper, nounshare-cropper, nounshear, verbshearer, nounsheep-dip, nounsheepdog, nounsheep-pen, nounshepherd, nounshepherdess, nounsickle, nounsilage, nounsilo, nounslaughter, verbslaughterhouse, nounsmallholding, nounsow, verbsow, nounsprayer, nounstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstall, nounstation, nounsteer, nounstock, nounstockbreeder, nounstockman, nounstockyard, nounstubble, nounsty, nounswill, nounswine, nounswineherd, nountenant farmer, nounterrace, nounthresh, verbthreshing machine, nountractor, nountrough, nountruck farm, nountrue, adverbudder, nounvillein, nounvineyard, nounweedkiller, nounweevil, nounwheat, nounwheatgerm, nounwheatmeal, nounwinnow, verbwool, nounwrangler, nounyoke, nounyoke, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + farm
cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals a ban on fur farming (=keeping and killing animals for their fur)
· He bought a 300-hectare farm in Shropshire.
· A pig farm in Dorset is the suspected source of the epidemic.
(=a farm that has cows and produces milk)· Checks are made on milk from local dairy farms.
(=a farm where crops are grown)· Tractors represent the single biggest cost on most arable farms.
· He lives on a fruit farm and helps to pick apples.
(=a farm where artificial chemicals are not used)· Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming.
(=one in which animals are kept inside, in small spaces, and made to grow or produce eggs very quickly)· Pigs in factory farms are fed a mixture of grains and proteins.
farm + NOUN· We rely on migrant farm workers to pick the crop.
British English, a farm laborer American English· The cottages were built for the farm labourers.
· The farmhouse is separated by hedges from other farm buildings.
· It is used mainly for feeding farm animals.
· In the field, there was a tractor and some other farm machinery.
· Moldova provides Russia with large quantities of farm produce.
verbs· I used to work on a farm when I was younger.
· She lives on a farm in Wiltshire.
· He manages a large dairy farm.
· The family owned a small farm in Suffolk.
· They grew wheat and barley on their farm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals· a small farming community of about 1,000 inhabitants
· To the east is an area of rich farming country.
(=fish that are from a fish farm)· We also know that farmed fish don’t have as much omega 3 as wild salmon.
a ban on fur farming (=keeping and killing animals for their fur)· I carefully shut the farm gate behind me.· Lots of parents were waiting outside the school gate.
· Farming methods have changed a lot over the last 100 years.
(=farming without using artificial chemicals)· the environmental benefits of organic farming
· Organic farmers build up soil fertility by crop rotation.· Synthetic fertilisers are banned on organic farms.
· The government bought surplus agricultural produce from farmers.
· Factory workers threatened strikes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Soloukhin told me of watching a collective-farm worker in a church turned granary.· In October 1956 collectivization began, with the establishment of collective farms.· Farmers given right to leave collective farms with allotment of land and equipment.· Milda was no longer allowed to live in Riga but had been ordered to do hard physical work on a collective farm.· Agriculture is crippled, too, by the miserable conditions on the collective farms.· He doesn't mean as drones on some collective farm.· People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collective farms are replacing small landholdings.· Here and there the landscape was broken by dreary gray buildings that had been thrown up to house members of collective farms.
· Now, industrialised countries are almost self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs due to the use of fertilisers, mechanisation and larger farm units.· In the countryside, large working farms interrupted a landscape of mountains, meadow, marshland, and abandoned quarries.· Jess is a quiet, intense kid from a large, close-knit farm family in Washington.· From here descend into Liddesdale, aiming towards a group of large green farm sheds across the valley.· When I was nine he started a large poultry farm west of Delray Beach, Florida.· In Ayrshire, with some world-famous herds, the larger farms would receive less than 5 percent. of the compensation.· Irrigation projects provide water for large commercial farms, not smallholders.
· From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher.· Cook and then move on across the Canterbury Plains for an overnight on a local farm.· They therefore attracted labour without any hindrance, providing jerry-built, damp and insanitary hovels for letting to local farm workers.· Most people I knew took their first few feet of sliding down a local farm field with a rope tow.· In addition to their milling activities, the Ayliffes also operated cider-making equipment, their portable unit moving annually around local farms.· Uncle would visit the local farms, trying to find work for them.· In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm.· She used to visit local farms, struck up a friendship with my Aunt Hannah and was introduced to Father.
· I came to the site of an old farm that had been overgrown and then clearcut five years ago.· Champany Inn Old converted farm steading, furnished in antique Victoriana.· We are starting with an old farm, while nature may have started with a glacial moraine ten thousand years ago.· The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.· It was one of the oldest hop farms in the Derwent Valley, and this minor valley took its name from it.· To the old farm for lunch, but what about the seals?· After all, the 27-year-old farm worker fully intended to return to work when his 30-minute lunch break was over.
· The prime culprit is organic farm waste, such as cattle slurry and silage, and even milk.· For a crash course on the subject, consider subscribing to an organic farm with a delivery service in your area.· Next week a new residential block opens at its organic farm, Kilcranny House, just outside Coleraine.· They say I must come and see them on their new organic farm - more land, less house, says Johnson.· A well-run organic farm could hold many times that number.· This was made up of the organic residues of farms, forestry, industry and domestic refuse.· Mr Wilson says organic farms reverse many modern agricultural trends.· By exterminating farm animals, the option of small organic farms is eroded.
· Mr MacSharry's answer is: merely for being farmers on small farms.· Stephen moved out of the city to a small farm owned by a Mrs Dodge.· Easily Accessible: Downhayes is set in an area of small working farms with few public footpaths in the immediate area.· Acquire the use of a small farm along the route with sufficient line-of-sight access to the radiated energy. 3.· Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.· The residents grew their own rice, set up a small poultry farm, wove baskets and cultivated the orchard.· These quintas are large houses in their own spacious grounds which often include a small farm.· Had those surpluses been directed elsewhere in the valley, they could have created a great many small irrigated farms.
NOUN· Under increasing public pressure, farmers are taking a greater interest in free-range systems which give a fairer deal to farm animals.· The farm animals begin to stir, the roosters consider crowing.· The next shelf we stopped on was filled with farm animals.· Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.· Though London Zoo remains open, its children's section-where youngsters can touch farm animals-has been shut.· So far, there had been as much romance as when the farm animals mated.· Smith has been carting farm animals around Britain for 30 years.
· He did sign a farm bill passed by Congress.· The action occurred as the Senate voted 64-32 for a seven-year farm bill which would replace fixed-level crop subsidies with declining payments.· The House has not yet considered the farm bill where a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep.· Hurt himself with Iowa farmers by missing a key vote on the federal farm bill.· The vote came on an amendment to a sweeping farm bill aimed at weaning farmers from federal subsidies.· He has a farm bill amendment ready that would phase out the peanut program over six years.· However, he said crunch time has come to get a farm bill enacted into law.· Supporters argue that the peanut program has been reformed under the Senate farm bill and the proposed House legislation.
· For economy in building costs, these three types of farm buildings were sometimes combined into a single building.· The farm buildings so often found below the galleries are situated further away in this case.· At last, at about 0345 hours, the farm buildings become defined against the woods and fields beyond.· Of the other farm buildings on our site, apart from a small bath-house, only barns and rural out-buildings were found.· A well and cheese press are below in the yard with the farm buildings situated below and behind the gallery.· He provided a comprehensive network of farm buildings connected, it is said, by a telegraph system.· There is certainly nothing new in converting farm buildings.
· The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms.· They live together on a lushly beautiful dairy farm.· In 1915 the farm was taken over by Fauchons who ran it as a dairy farm.· He turned the beef holding into a dairy farm and soon began expanding by leasing other dairy farms all over Ireland.· With Marjorie, she rented a tiny cottage at the edge of a dairy farm in Dorset, Vermont.· He turned the beef holding into a dairy farm and soon began expanding by leasing other dairy farms all over Ireland.· Livestock sales are down 1%, while turnover on dairy farms could fall by up to 10%.
· Speyside was an area where the lack of adequate housing had provided particular problems in keeping family farms going.· Instead of a family farm raising potatoes and grain, they also own the horse-breeding farm of their dreams.· Therefore family farms also cross-subsidise the profits from copper mining.· Earlier, he had highlighted Clinton-administration backed research programs at a stop at a nearby family farm.· This was achieved partly through capitalist agriculture driving out family farms.· The agricultural economy, based on family farms and home workshops, shifted to an industrial one.· Reformed systems of direct support, aimed in particular at helping family farms and crofts.· As a child, he watched a river sweep away the wheat planted on the family farm in Indiana.
· Those with milking herds had a ready market for farm gate sales of butter and cheese.· The tractor ruts led straight on to a farm gate.· And here, barring the road, was the familiar old farm gate still in place.
· The following week was Guildford and I decided to stay at Grayshott Hall, the health farm.· At the foot of the Quantock Hills in rural Somerset is one of the most luxurious health farms in the country.· Thereby completely missing the point of being at a health farm.· By this stage we were beginning to realise the formula is two days in Paris, six days in a health farm.· If you need a break there's nothing better than being pampered at a health farm.· Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm.
· Other hill farms are owned and worked as a unit linked with a lowland farm.· I believed I had been locked up all my life, up there on that hill farm in North Chittendon.· Opposite a riding stable follow a track leading past Windy Hill farm and to the beach.· Asa bought the hill farm in 1856 from Orin Perkins, married Elmira Wilkins, and settled there.· As a result some of the hill farms are being joined together - amalgamated - and farm labourers are becoming unemployed.
· Dartmoor and Exmoor, with their wild moorland, some farm land and villages, are National Parks.· The loch covers an area of 550 acres, surrounded north, west and south by farm lands and fresh-water marshes.· Farmwatch will also deal with the threat of travellers invading farm land and prevent scenes like those at Castlemoreton.· Another consequence of population growth is a demand for new farm land.· Lead head Please identify this object I found recently on ploughed farm land.· High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing.· What has happened to the farm land?· Why may farmers wish to sell the remaining farm land?
· He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.· Until the combine appeared, the self-binder had been the mechanical marvel of the farm machinery industry for forty years.· A fire service spokeswoman said the outhouses contained mostly farm machinery.· They were brothers; they were transporting farm machinery from Los Angeles to Minnesota and making good money at it.· These included providing extra farm machinery and manpower, including 20,000 troops.· They were one of the first, and certainly one of the most successful, manufacturers of steam-powered farm machinery.· The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.· Dead sheep and lambs were found in farm machinery.
· The project high-lighted the key role of the expert advisors which are used by farm managers in undertaking their roles.· I just pay his farm manager our rent.· You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits.· Nicky Brown, the farm manager, was born to the land.· She no longer took such an interest in the farm, and very sensibly appointed Gabriel Oak her farm manager.· His body was still warm when it was discovered by police after his farm manager had reported him missing.· These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough, who photographed them.
· We hear about farm subsidies and the social wage.· Federal farm subsidies are riddled with hypocrisies.· Republicans would put a first-ever annual limit on farm subsidies.· Moreover, farm subsidies undermine the efforts of developing countries to follow Washington's economic prescriptions.· The price rises wiped out the need for farm subsidies.
· The Countryside Commission has called for planning guidelines on wind farms to be issued to local authorities.· The government has responded by planning offshore wind farms on the Ijsselmeer.· At the moment, only inshore wind farms have been erected but there is great potential in offshore wind.· Offshore wind farms would be more expensive to establish but far less of an eyesore.
· Any farm outbuildings or their contents or any liability for domestic employees engaged for farm work are excluded.· He also said that these days camels are only really sold for farm work carts and ploughs.· Shift work could clash with farm work especially with attendance at sales.· I threw myself into farm work, as absorbed by this job as I had once been by literature and teaching.· The pattern of farm work done by those with a full-time off-farm job was mainly evening and weekend work.· In two cases where father and son were both working shifts they had arranged alternate shifts thus allowing uninterrupted farm work.· Lessons took up only two hours a day and the farm work was badly organised.· This was not ideal because of fatigue and farm work that had to be carried out at those times.
· Secondly, it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind.· The daughter of an itinerant farm worker, Ward now rubs shoulders with the rich, famous and glamorous.· There is little reason to suppose that the consequences of these changes will in themselves lead farm workers to become more militant.· He says the country is not facing a shortage of farm workers, according to his spokesman Allen Kay.· It was being driven towards Weatherbury by two farm workers, who had not noticed Gabriel.· These boundaries draw in children of immigrant farm workers and, at the other extreme, children of high-tech millionaires.· It took place on the Monday after Twelfth Day when the farm workers returned to work after the Christmas holiday.· Instead the newcomers tend to evaluate the farm worker and the other villagers on the basis of urban criteria for allocating prestige.
VERB· He'd been working too hard in college, and even harder since he'd been running the farm.· Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time, so he must have been a very busy man.· A third brother, Ben, runs the farm shop.· He delivered the letters and ran a little bit of a farm he owned, whilst his wife looked after the Post Office.· For three years he would supply funds to run the farm, any profits being split equally between Tom and himself.· Her husband, Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm, he killed himself.· Plus she ran the farm which she had no idea about.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bet the farm/ranch
1an area of land used for growing crops or keeping animals: - Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
- Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
- Sadly, country folk have caught on.
- The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
- The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
- The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk.
- Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.
- About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
- Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
- Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
- The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
- The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
- They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
- They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
- We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
- A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
- Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
- The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
- The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
- There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
- Wave of unrest hits model prison.
- In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
- It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
- It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years, surviving on subsistence farming.
- Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
- She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
- The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
- This vast, dispersed rural workforce would need, and would receive, only the education needed for manual subsistence farming.
- Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
a 300-hectare farm farm workers farm animals Joe had worked on the farm all his life.a pig/dairy/cattle etc farm He runs a pig farm in Lincolnshire. ► Say on a farm not ‘in a farm’.2the main house on a farm where the farmer lives → factory farm at factory farming, fish farm, funny farmCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + farma 300-hectare/400-acre etc farm· He bought a 300-hectare farm in Shropshire.a pig/sheep/cattle farm· A pig farm in Dorset is the suspected source of the epidemic.a dairy farm (=a farm that has cows and produces milk)· Checks are made on milk from local dairy farms.an arable farm (=a farm where crops are grown)· Tractors represent the single biggest cost on most arable farms.a fruit farm· He lives on a fruit farm and helps to pick apples.an organic farm (=a farm where artificial chemicals are not used)· Organic farms can be as productive as industrial farming.a factory farm (=one in which animals are kept inside, in small spaces, and made to grow or produce eggs very quickly)· Pigs in factory farms are fed a mixture of grains and proteins.farm + NOUNa farm worker· We rely on migrant farm workers to pick the crop.a farm labourer British English, a farm laborer American English· The cottages were built for the farm labourers.a farm building· The farmhouse is separated by hedges from other farm buildings.farm animals· It is used mainly for feeding farm animals.farm machinery· In the field, there was a tractor and some other farm machinery.farm produce· Moldova provides Russia with large quantities of farm produce.verbswork on a farm· I used to work on a farm when I was younger.live on a farm· She lives on a farm in Wiltshire.manage/run a farm· He manages a large dairy farm.own/have a farm· The family owned a small farm in Suffolk.grow something on a farm· They grew wheat and barley on their farm.THESAURUSfarm an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals: · a 300-hectare farm· a dairy farm· a sheep farmranch a very large farm in the western US, Canada, or South America where sheep, cattle, or horses are bred: · a cattle ranch in Wyomingsmallholding British English a piece of land used for farming, that is smaller than an ordinary farm: · a smallholding used for organic farmingplantation a large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar are grown: · a rubber plantation· a tea plantationhomestead a piece of land for farming that was given to people in the past by the US and Canadian governments: · He still farms on the family homestead, a hundred years after his grandfather received it.spread American English informal an area of land used for farming or ranching: · They have a pretty big spread just south of the Canadian border.market garden an area of land, often with greenhouses on it, used for growing vegetables and fruit: · He runs his own market garden, and sells his produce to the big supermarkets.orchard an area of land with trees, used for growing fruit: · an apple orchard· cherry orchardsallotment British English a small area of land of land, especially in a town or city, which you can use for growing your own vegetables.The land is usually owned by the local council, who charge a very low rent: · We grew the tomatoes on our allotment.agriculture the practice of farming: · More than 75% of the land is used for agriculture.arable adjective relating to growing crops: · a lack of arable landfarm1 nounfarm2 verb
farmfarm2 ●●○ verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLE
farm
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | farm |
| he, she, it | farms | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | farmed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have farmed |
| he, she, it | has farmed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had farmed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will farm |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have farmed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am farming |
| he, she, it | is farming | |
| you, we, they | are farming | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was farming |
| you, we, they | were farming | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been farming |
| he, she, it | has been farming | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been farming |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be farming |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been farming |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- My family has farmed here since 1901.
- Foreshadowing yet another Communist practice, he formed colonies of soldiers to farm virgin areas.
WORD SETS
agrarian, adjectiveagribusiness, nounagro-, prefixagro-industry, nounanimal husbandry, nounanimal rights, nounartificial insemination, nounbale, nounbale, verbbarn, nounbarnyard, nounbattery, nounbiotechnology, nounbreadbasket, nounbreed, verbbreeding, nounbroiler, nounbroiler chicken, nounBSE, nounbuckaroo, nounbull, nounbutcher, verbbyre, nouncapon, nouncattleman, nouncattle market, nouncattle prod, nounchaff, nounchicken, nounchicken run, nouncollective farm, nouncoop, nounco-op, nouncorral, nouncorral, verbcowboy, nouncowgirl, nouncowhand, nouncowpoke, nouncreamery, nouncroft, nouncrofter, nouncrofting, nouncultivate, verbcultivation, noundairy, noundairy cattle, noundairy farm, noundairymaid, noundairyman, nounDDT, noundip, verbdip, noundirt farmer, noundrover, noundry-stone wall, noundude ranch, nounDutch barn, nounextensive agriculture, factory farming, nounfallow, adjectivefarm, nounfarm, verbfarmer, nounfarmhand, nounfarmhouse, nounfarming, nounfarmland, nounfarmstead, nounfarmyard, nounfeedstock, nounfield, nounfishery, nounfish farm, nounfish meal, nounflail, verbflail, nounfleece, nounfodder, nounfold, nounfoot and mouth disease, nounforage, nounfowl, nounfree-range, adjectivefungicide, noungamekeeper, noungeld, verbgenetically modified, adjectivegentleman farmer, nounGM, adjectivegoatherd, noungraft, noungraft, verbgranary, noungreenhouse, noungreen revolution, nounGreen Revolution, nounhacienda, nounharrow, nounhatchery, nounhayloft, nounhaymaking, nounhaystack, nounheifer, nounhen house, nounherbicide, nounherd, nounherd, verbherdsman, nounhigh-yield, adjectivehired hand, nounhomestead, nounhomestead, verbhopper, nounhorticulture, nounhusbandry, nounhutch, nouninsecticide, nounintensive agriculture, irrigate, verbJersey, nounkibbutz, nounlamb, verbland agent, nounlasso, nounlasso, verblift, verblitter, nounlivestock, nounlonghorn, nounmad cow disease, nounmanure, nounmeat, nounmerino, nounmilk, nounmilk churn, nounmilking machine, nounmilking parlour, nounmilkmaid, nounmixed farming, nounmower, nounmuck, nounmuckheap, nounnursery, nounoast house, nounorangery, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic farming, paddock, nounpaddy, nounpasturage, nounpasture, nounpasture, verbpastureland, nounpen, nounperpendicular, adjectivepest, nounpesticide, nounpiggery, nounpigpen, nounpigsty, nounpigswill, nounpitchfork, nounplantation, nounplanter, nounplough, nounplough, verbploughboy, nounploughman, nounploughshare, nounpoultry, nounproducer, nounpullet, nounPYO, raise, verbranch, nounrancher, nounranching, nounrange, nounranger, nounrear, verbrick, nounrubber, nounrun, nounrustle, verbscarecrow, nounscythe, nounsharecropper, nounshare-cropper, nounshear, verbshearer, nounsheep-dip, nounsheepdog, nounsheep-pen, nounshepherd, nounshepherdess, nounsickle, nounsilage, nounsilo, nounslaughter, verbslaughterhouse, nounsmallholding, nounsow, verbsow, nounsprayer, nounstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstall, nounstation, nounsteer, nounstock, nounstockbreeder, nounstockman, nounstockyard, nounstubble, nounsty, nounswill, nounswine, nounswineherd, nountenant farmer, nounterrace, nounthresh, verbthreshing machine, nountractor, nountrough, nountruck farm, nountrue, adverbudder, nounvillein, nounvineyard, nounweedkiller, nounweevil, nounwheat, nounwheatgerm, nounwheatmeal, nounwinnow, verbwool, nounwrangler, nounyoke, nounyoke, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals a ban on fur farming (=keeping and killing animals for their fur)
cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals· a small farming community of about 1,000 inhabitants
· To the east is an area of rich farming country.
(=fish that are from a fish farm)· We also know that farmed fish don’t have as much omega 3 as wild salmon.
a ban on fur farming (=keeping and killing animals for their fur)· I carefully shut the farm gate behind me.· Lots of parents were waiting outside the school gate.
· Farming methods have changed a lot over the last 100 years.
(=farming without using artificial chemicals)· the environmental benefits of organic farming
· Organic farmers build up soil fertility by crop rotation.· Synthetic fertilisers are banned on organic farms.
· The government bought surplus agricultural produce from farmers.
· Factory workers threatened strikes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· His grandfather farmed 250 acres across the border in County Monaghan.· He farms half an acre of a friend's land in Mid-Glamorgan.
· Nicky Brown, the farm manager, was born to the land.· The healthy cotton is grown on family plots, the neglected crop on land farmed by co-operatives.· The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away.· The land is already farmed organically.· Their land is farmed very intensively.· Apart from the small plots given to each member family for their house and garden, all the land is farmed collectively.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bet the farm/ranch
1to use land for growing crops or keeping animals: - As a result, commercially farmed rabbits are available, both for meat and hair; the angora is an example.
- The documentary Warning from the Wild-the Price of Salmon looked at levels of polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins in farmed salmon.
- The practice also raises questions about the quality of farmed fish, says Pauly.
- Though perfectly and classically cooked, the one I sampled had the muddy, acrid flavor of farmed fish.
- Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
- Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
- Sadly, country folk have caught on.
- The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
- The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
- The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk.
- Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk.
- About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
- Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
- Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
- The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
- The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
- They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
- They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
- We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
- A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
- Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
- The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
- The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
- There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
- Wave of unrest hits model prison.
- In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
- It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
- It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years, surviving on subsistence farming.
- Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
- She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
- The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
- This vast, dispersed rural workforce would need, and would receive, only the education needed for manual subsistence farming.
- Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
The family has farmed here for generations. The land has been farmed organically since 1995.2farmed salmon/fish/rabbits etc fish and animals that have been raised on farms, and not caught from the wildfarm somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb1to send work to other people instead of doing it yourselffarm out to The processing will be farmed out to people in local villages.2to send someone to a different place where they will be looked after – used to show disapprovalfarm out to At the age of 16 she was farmed out to family friends.