Mixed farming

: Topic in Gardening courses. By John Eagles.

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A mixed farm is one where both crops and animals are cultivated and where crops are grown at least partly at the service of the livestock. A typical mixed farm would be one in which various animals are held, such as cows, goats, pigs, poultry. The manure is used to fertilize the land where all kind of crops, grass, rye, wheat, turnips, legumes, etc. are grown. Many of these products were used for the family of the family but some would be sold at markets.

Modern agriculture is more and more becoming a large-scale business in which one farmer only has a dairy farm or only grows a few crops. For dairy farms, mostly the only mixed element is that maize and grass silage are fed to the cattle.