farm - use in sentences

Object

  • salmon: It takes 5 tons of fish caught from the sea to produce one ton of factory farmed salmon ( 39 ).
  • acre: He farmed 75 acres, the greater part of which was pasture.

Adjective modifier

  • organic: On non organic farms the norm is for four cows to be kept on the same area.
  • offshore: North Hoyle, the UK's first major offshore wind farm.
  • onshore: Around half the planning applications for onshore wind farms in the UK fail.
  • collective: A total of 92 percent of agricultural lands is owned by state and collective farms.
  • upland: I could not have been more wrong about organic animals from upland farms.
  • mixed: The organic rules as devised by Europe, and you, seem to be designed for mixed farms and not for permanent pasture farms.

Modifies a noun

  • laborer: Their first son Jas, a 19 year old farm laborer, had been born in Longton.
  • animal: He worked on a farm with cattle + all farm animals.
  • diversification: Support for farm business diversification was also provided under the last round of EU funding.
  • subsidy: Some of the report's findings, including the stance on farm subsidies, run counter to the National Corn Grower's official views.
  • machinery: Farmer Bell gets all his farm machinery from him.
  • building: The new business is housed in a renovated farm building.

Noun used with modifier

  • wind: Wind farm A group of wind turbines located in areas exposed to wind.
  • dairy: There are now more bureaucrats in DEFRA than there are dairy farms in England.
  • pig: A pig farm was established on ground where later the Burgh Caravan site was laid out.
  • sheep: Now, Strath Brora was cleared in 1819 or before then for the upper part under the great Marshall and Atkinson sheep farm.
  • acre: Choose from our range of self-catering properties all situated within the grounds of our 65 acre farm.
  • livestock: Admission: £ 4.50 adults Children £ 3.50 with under 2s free - Family £ 15 Working livestock farm.

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