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A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]
Johnson Farm is a historic home and farm complex and national historic district located near Kipling, Harnett County, North Carolina. It encompasses 21 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures on a rural farm complex. The main house was built in 1918, and is a two-story, double pile, Southern Colonial frame ...
Barber Farm (Cleveland, North Carolina) Barnes–Hooks Farm; Dr. John G. & Nannie H. Barrett Farm; Blair Farm; Malcolm Blue Farm; Bobbitt–Rogers House and Tobacco Manufactory District; Boger–Hartsell Farm; Bracebridge Hall (Tarboro, North Carolina) Brookland (Grassy Creek, North Carolina) Bryan–Bell Farm; Buxton Place
The beef sector in Wales is in slow decline; in 2017 there were some 167,828 beef cattle aged over two years in Wales, [19] down from 220,000 in 2011. [18] Upland and hill farms provide grazing for hardy breeds of cattle like Welsh Blacks and for Welsh Mountain sheep. The cattle are normally housed in winter and may graze the open hillside in ...
Subsistence agriculture generally features: small capital/finance requirements, mixed cropping, limited use of agrochemicals (e.g. pesticides and fertilizer), unimproved varieties of crops and animals, little or no surplus yield for sale, use of crude/traditional tools (e.g. hoes, machetes, and cutlasses), mainly the production of crops, small ...
As productivity increased, the company expanded into home delivery and wholesale supply to area hotels, then part of Western North Carolina's nascent tourism industry. Imported from the UK (specifically from the Channel Islands), Jersey cows, known for producing high-quality milk, comprised the original Biltmore Farms herd. Biltmore cattle were ...
A demonic California dad has been arrested for allegedly beheading his 1-year-old son Friday in an early-morning frenzy of violence that also injured his wife and her mother, according to police.
The woollen industry in Wales was a major contributor to the national economy, accounting for two-thirds of the nation's exports in 1660. Sheep farms are most often situated in the country's mountains and moorlands, where sheepdogs are employed to round up flocks. Sheep are also reared, however, along the south and west coasts of Wales. [1]