Farms for Sale
Numerous people may want to buy farms. Some may want to buy or sell farms. Some may want to own a farm for hobby farming. Some may want to own a farm to earn a living. Some may want to make investments in the farming industry and purchase a farm with potential. Some may want to stay at high quality farms. Some may want to farm agriculture. Some may want to farm rural farms. Some may want to farm animals or crops.
Numerous people may want to buy farms.
A farm is an area of land, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food (produce, grains, or livestock), fibers and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation or a company. A farm can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a hectare to several thousand hectares.
A business producing tree fruits or nuts is called orchard; a vineyard produces grapes. The stable is used for operations principally involved in the training of horses. Stud and commercial farms breed and produce other animals and livestock. A farm that is primarily used for the production of milk and dairy is a dairy farm. A market garden or truck farm is a farm that grows vegetables, but little or no grain. Additional specialty farms include fish farms, which raise fish in captivity as a food source, and tree farms, which grow trees for sale for transplant, lumber, or decorative use. A plantation is usually a large farm or estate, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee or sugar cane, are cultivated, usually by resident laborers.
The development of farming and farms was an important component in establishing towns. Once people have moved from hunting and/or gathering and from simple horticulture to active farming, social arrangements of roads, distribution, collection, and marketing can evolve. With the exception of plantations and colonial farms, farm sizes tend to be small in newly-settled lands and expand as transportation and markets become sophisticated. Farming rights have been the central tenet of a number of revolutions, wars of liberation, and post-colonial economics.
The term farming covers a wide spectrum of agricultural production work. At one end of this spectrum is the subsistence farmer, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her family. At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including industrial agriculture. Such farming involves large fields and/or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and a high level of mechanization. These operations generally attempt to maximize financial income from grain, produce, or livestock.
Traditionally, the goal of farming was to work collectively
as a community to grow and harvest crops that could be grown in mass such as wheat,
corn, squash, and other staples. Centuries later these same farmers took charge
of livestock, and began growing food exclusively for the feeding of livestock
as well as for the community. With the growth of actual civilization the farmer's
focus changed from basic survival to that of financial gain. In smaller towns
on the outset of civilization the farmer did retain the need to grow their own
food, but the financially minded farmer was largely spreading. With the Renaissance
came the plantation, a "Farm" primarily worked by others primarily for
the gain of the plantation's owner. Then came a new age of industry where the
farm could be manned by fewer men and big machines. This meant a complete revolution
for farming which will be discussed below.
Types of farming
Collective
farming
Factory farming
Intensive farming
Organic farming
Vertical
farming
Fell farming
Farm control and ownership has traditionally been
a key indicator of status and power, especially in agrarian societies. The distribution
of farm ownership has historically been closely linked to form of government.
Medieval feudalism was essentially a system that centralized control of farmland,
control of farm labor and political power, while the early American democracy,
in which land ownership was a prerequisite for voting rights, was built on relatively
easy paths to individual farm ownership. However, the gradual modernization and
mechanization of farming, which greatly increases both the efficiency and capital
requirements of farming, has led to increasingly large farms owned by individuals
or corporations. This has usually been accompanied by the decoupling of political
power from farm ownership.
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