noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a farming community
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a small farming community of about 1,000 inhabitants
a farming method
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Farming methods have changed a lot over the last 100 years.
factory farming
fur farming (= keeping and killing animals for their fur )
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a ban on fur farming
mixed farming
organic farming (= farming without using artificial chemicals )
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the environmental benefits of organic farming
walking/riding/farming etc country
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To the east is an area of rich farming country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
arable
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The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming .
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These were in contrast to upland permanent pasture, where arable farming could only be undertaken infrequently, in special circumstances.
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It was no accident that a good many towns were sited on the borderline between arable farming and pastoral regions.
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The hedgerows and pasture where the owls hunt their prey are disappearing as farmers create bigger fields for intensive arable farming .
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In the best cereal-growing areas, arable farming may dominate the scene, with animals and grass taking second place.
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In the steepest, wettest areas, stock-rearing takes complete precedence, and little, if any, arable farming is undertaken.
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Local drainage authorities have continued to lower water levels for intensive arable and cattle farming despite warnings from environmentalists.
commercial
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But throughout Britain the system is one of commercial farming .
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In addition to such high and non-liquid capital assets the investment requirements of modern commercial farming are considerable.
intensive
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The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming .
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They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming .
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Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
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Yet it was clear that intensive farming was not possible on the poor Pomeranian soil.
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The hedgerows and pasture where the owls hunt their prey are disappearing as farmers create bigger fields for intensive arable farming .
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The current landscape of the site is bleak, suffering from the effects of intensive farming .
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In addition to spray drift, intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora.
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A countryside under intensive farming which depends on leisure and service industries is a cosmetic, lifeless countryside.
modern
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In addition to such high and non-liquid capital assets the investment requirements of modern commercial farming are considerable.
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One may doubt whether modern farming has any useful purpose nowadays when everybody is on a diet.
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The difficulty here is that modern methods of farming are highly intensive and sometimes artificial.
organic
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The foundation will also research and develop organic farming techniques.
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Some farmers are likely to achieve this by converting to organic farming .
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In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming .
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It is now open to the public as a prize example of how well organic farming can function.
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These groups believe that both the Set Aside and Beef Extensification schemes could go one step further and encourage organic farming .
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Like organic farming: it was small potatoes.
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But as organic farming burgeons, so greater controls on the use of the word are to be introduced.
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The most popular method or organic farming is using a multi-culture system in which crops are grown and livestock reared.
traditional
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The decline in revenue from traditional farming means that farmers must diversify.
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The goods are the traditional end-products of farming .
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A few farmers have adhered to or returned to more traditional methods of farming .
■ NOUN
community
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The Minister said nothing today that will reassure the farming community .
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I can not tell the farming community that this will be a short negotiation.
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Yet most mines are interspersed with farming communities .
factory
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Criticisms of factory farming have been rehearsed often enough.
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Primary education isn't some form of factory farming based on controlled diets of programmes of study and attainment targets.
industry
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The farming industry needs to inform the public about all aspects of their industry and open these up to public discussion.
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The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes perannum in 1990.
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The oyster farming industry , already hit by recession, would face extinction should the proposals be implemented.
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The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries .
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The hon. Gentleman has ceased to have any credibility in the farming industry .
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As has been said before, there is a general gloom about the farming industry .
method
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The introduction of a new support system to encourage public access and conservation-friendly farming methods .
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Modern farming methods , particularly in arable crop fields, were thought to be responsible for the declines.
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The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods .
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They consider that unless the farming methods are tackled, no clothing industry can claim that its product is ecologically sound.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
country/farming etc folk
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Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
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Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
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Sadly, country folk have caught on.
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The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
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The customers were mostly farming folk , a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
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The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk .
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Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk .
intensive farming/agriculture
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About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
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Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
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Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
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They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
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They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
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We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
subsistence farming/agriculture etc
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In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
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It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
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It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years, surviving on subsistence farming.
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Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
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She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
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The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
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This vast, dispersed rural workforce would need, and would receive, only the education needed for manual subsistence farming.
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Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints.
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In the wettest and wildest parts of the marshes, fishing and fowling replaced more organized farming .
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Livestock Livestock farming has been seriously affected by the need to produce so much so quickly.
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No wonder they had let the army take over this area; it was worth nothing for farming .
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Originally North Dalton was a self-supporting agricultural village with farming being the only means of employment.
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She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
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They found that the proposals would result in net farming incomes falling by an estimated £11,000 or £12,000.
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They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming .