Editing Farm (section)

==Types of farms==
[[File:Dell City, Texas (29994634276).jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Farmland in the United States. The round fields are due to the use of [[center pivot irrigation]]]]
A farm may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation, or a company, may produce one or many types of produce, and can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a [[hectare]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Winterbottom|first=Jo|title=SPECIAL REPORT – India's food chain in deep change|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-57791920110620|work=Reuters|access-date=12 July 2011|author2=Jadhav, Rajendra|date=June 20, 2011|quote=The average size of farms in India is a mere 1.77 hectares – about the size of two soccer pitches|archive-date=1 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201202147/https://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-57791920110620|url-status=dead}}</ref> to several thousand hectares.<ref name="Wrightsair">{{cite web|url=http://www.wrightsair.com.au/anna.htm |title=Anna Creek Station |publisher=Wrightsair |access-date=February 17, 2012 |quote=Anna Creek Station is well known as the largest cattle station in the world, covering an area of 24,000 sq. km |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080301111927/http://www.wrightsair.com.au/anna.htm |archive-date=March 1, 2008 }}</ref>

A farm may operate under a [[monoculture]] system or with a variety of cereal or arable crops, which may be separate from or combined with raising livestock. Specialist farms are often denoted as such, thus a dairy farm, fish farm, poultry farm or mink farm.

Some farms may not use the word at all, hence vineyard (grapes), orchard (nuts and other fruit), [[market gardening|market garden]] or "truck farm" (vegetables and flowers). Some farms may be denoted by their topographical location, such as a [[hill farm]], while large estates growing cash crops such as cotton or coffee may be called plantations.

Many other terms are used to describe farms to denote their methods of production, as in [[Collective farming|collective]], [[Corporate farming|corporate]], [[Intensive farming|intensive]], [[Organic farming|organic]] or [[Vertical farming|vertical]].

Where most of the income is from some other employment, and the farm is an expanded residence, the term [[hobby farm]] is common. This will allow sufficient size for recreational use but be very unlikely to produce sufficient income to be self-sustaining. Hobby farms are commonly around {{convert|2|hectare|acre}} but may be much larger depending on land prices.

Other farms may primarily exist for research or education, such as an [[ant farm]], and since farming is synonymous with mass production, the word "farm" may be used to describe [[Wind farm|wind power generation]] or [[Puppy mill|puppy farm]]. 

=== Farm buildings ===
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Farms have special buildings. Some buildings, such as [[Barn|barns]], may hold animals. There may be separate buildings for chickens and pigs. On dairy farms, a milking parlor is an important building. It is where dairy cows are milked. The milk is kept in a milking parlor until a milk tanker comes to get it. There are also special buildings for keeping [[grain]]. A [[silo]] is a tall building where grains, such as wheat and oats are stored. Farmers also use small round metal buildings to store their grain. These buildings are called [[grain bins]].