noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dairy farm (= a farm that has cows and produces milk )
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Checks are made on milk from local dairy farms.
dairy cattle
dairy cows (= kept for their milk )
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He keeps a herd of dairy cows.
dairy farm
dairy produce British English (= milk, butter, cheese etc )
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Vitamin A can also be obtained from dairy produce and eggs.
dairy/beef cattle
dairy/milk products
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Some people are allergic to dairy products.
sheep/dairy/livestock etc farming
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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So the farm is well set with its 1000 acres of arable and large dairy herd.
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It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd.
old
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Express Dairies, the oldest dairy in London, it said.
■ NOUN
cattle
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There is much permanent grass and more dairy cattle than in other parts of East Anglia.
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The farmers concentrated upon dairy cattle and sheep and were dependent upon weaving as a second source of income.
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A prize of nearly £2,000 for top dairy cattle has encouraged a huge entry of 777 animals, bucking downward national trends.
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Kale Kale is grown for feeding dairy cattle .
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Much of it is intensively managed grassland carrying a heavy stocking of dairy cattle .
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Without it, in my opinion, the profit does not compare with that of dairy cattle .
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Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs.
farm
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The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms .
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They live together on a lushly beautiful dairy farm .
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In 1915 the farm was taken over by Fauchons who ran it as a dairy farm.
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He turned the beef holding into a dairy farm and soon began expanding by leasing other dairy farms all over Ireland.
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With Marjorie, she rented a tiny cottage at the edge of a dairy farm in Dorset, Vermont.
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He turned the beef holding into a dairy farm and soon began expanding by leasing other dairy farms all over Ireland.
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Livestock sales are down 1%, while turnover on dairy farms could fall by up to 10%.
farmer
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Milk quotas imposed on dairy farmers have now stabilised, but only after putting many farmers out of business.
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More like a dairy farmer , Wade thought, than an officer of the law.
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For dairy farmers the payment period was reduced from 45 days to 30 days.
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All California dairy farmers must pay 15 cents to the federal fund for every hundred pounds of milk produced.
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For dairy farmers shorter courses were run but travel could still be considerable and some found it very difficult to attend.
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Roberts was born in 1918, the son of a dairy farmer in Puente, California.
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In 1986, with the Community still awash with milk, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers .
food
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High dairy food consumers prefer light floral fragrances.
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The good news is that dairy foods , like milk, yogurt and cheese, help protect teeth from cavities.
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Getting adequate protein from easy-to-eat dairy foods can help.
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To offset the perception that dairy foods are high in calories, low-fat cheeses have become state-of-the-art.
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Fish and shellfish or dairy foods could show up daily, but would be optional.
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If you include dairy foods , use low-fat versions, and only small portions.
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Two to three servings low-fat or non-fat dairy foods .
herd
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So the farm is well set with its 1000 acres of arable and large dairy herd .
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His operation, in terms of mechanization and dairy herd management, is one of the most capital-intensive in the province.
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Milk is the dominant product from livestock farms, and beef is usually a byproduct of the dairy herd .
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It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd .
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Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.
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The land is used intensively mainly for dairy herds producing fresh milk.
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Dairying in particular occupied the second Earl's attention and his own dairy herds were a lifelong passion.
industry
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Their acidic characteristics makes them particularly suitable for the dairy industry , breweries and soft drink manufacturers.
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On the whole, though, the Norman producers are acting with sense and foresight over the development of their dairy industry .
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Eight maids a-milking Rationalisation is not finished yet in the Northern Ireland dairy industry .
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It will be a very different dairy industry by the end of 2001.
produce
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Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce .
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She pruned her diet drastically, cutting down dairy produce and other foods high in cholesterol.
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Chapter 2 has touched on food intolerance in the case of dairy produce .
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It is also obtained in liver, kidney, dairy produce , and eggs.
product
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The materials cover the production and manufacture of milk and dairy products , as well as providing nutrition information.
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Lately, the Northern California-based family-run company has introduced other dairy products to Southern California stores.
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Vitamin B12 is found in dairy products , and a number of cereals and yeast extracts, such as Marmite.
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No oil, dairy products or sweeteners are added so the principle of slow rise will prevail.
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He became increasingly frustrated by his inability to preserve food, especially dairy products , during hot summer months.
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She then gave the dairy product to a leper, whose affliction immediately disappeared.
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They get into the human diet via fish, meat and dairy products .
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Vegans: Vegetarians who eat neither eggs nor dairy products may have a tough time consuming enough vitamin B-12.
■ VERB
keep
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Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess, his father rode with him a little way.
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At the time, Dorset was beginning the transition from picturesque dairy country to affluent summer artist colony.
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But it's cattle you should think of in this country, perfect dairy pasture, rich it is.
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Carrie followed him, through a door at the back of the kitchen, down a stone passage into a dairy .
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Congress got in the act in the following years, lending the academy $ 255, 000 to expand the dairy .
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Critics routinely dubbed him a dairy farmer from Kansas.
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The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms.