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As the Spanish livestock sector was increasingly concentrated in northern Spain, where minifundio agriculture predominated, many Spanish cattleraising farms were too small fully to exploit the efficiencies of modern technology. [2] Domestic meat production failed to meet demand, making Spain a net importer of farm animals and meat products. [2]
The Farm (Miró) The Farm. (Miró) The Farm is an oil painting made by Joan Miró between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp and winter 1922 in Paris. [1] It is a kind of inventory of the masia (traditional Catalan farmhouse) owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his ...
The intensive agriculture of the province of Almeria, Spain, is a model of the utilization of highly technical means to achieve maximum economic yield based on the rational use of water, use of plastic greenhouses, highly technical training and high levels of employment of inputs, applied to the special characteristics of a particular environment.
Eduardo Sousa Holm is a Spanish farmer who makes goose foie gras without gavage (force feeding), at his farm in Extremadura. [1][2][3] Chef Dan Barber described his experience of Sousa's farm in his book, The Third Plate, and at a TED presentation in 2008. [4] on the radio show This American Life in 2011.
Ranch. A ranch (from Spanish: rancho / Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm. These terms are most often applied to livestock-raising operations in Mexico, the Western United States and Western ...
Finca. A finca in Mallorca. A cortijo in a finca in Seville. Finca ([ˈfiŋka]) is a Spanish term for estate. In English usage, [1] it refers to a piece of rural or agricultural land, typically with a cottage, farmhouse or estate building present, and often adjacent to a woodland or plantation.
An "estancia" was a similar type of food farm. An estancia differed from an hacienda in terms of crop types handled, target market, machinery used, and size. An estancia, during Spanish colonial times in Puerto Rico (1508 [55] - 1898), [a] was a plot of land used for cultivating "frutos menores" (minor crops). [56]
Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – 15 May 1130), was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers, and of Madrid; El Gobernador, Jalisco; La Ceiba, Honduras; and of Tocoa, Honduras.