Definition of Dairy farming

1. Noun. The business of a dairy.

Exact synonyms: Dairying
Generic synonyms: Agriculture, Farming, Husbandry

Definition of Dairy farming

1. Noun. A class of animal husbandry enterprise producing dairy products. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dairy Farming

daintify
daintily
daintiness
daintinesses
daintrel
daintrels
dainty
daiquiri
daiquiris
dairies
dairy
dairy cattle
dairy cow
dairy farm
dairy farmer
dairy farming (current term)
dairy product
dairy products
dairygirl
dairygirls
dairying
dairyings
dairyland
dairylands
dairyless
dairylike
dairymaid
dairymaids
dairyman
dairymen

Literary usage of Dairy farming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"British dairy farming. By James Long. London, 1885. 3. ... ABOUT twelve years ago there was a revival of interest in the dairy farming of this country. ..."

2. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1892)
"It may seem strange at first sight that the increase of pasture should have been accompanied by a decline of dairy farming ; but there was at all events a ..."

3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1866)
"This article is not designed to describe the methods of dairy farming which are ... My object here, is rather to show the results of dairy farming for seven ..."

4. Prairie Farming in America: With Notes by the Way on Canada and the United by James Caird (1859)
"dairy farming.—Artesian Wells.— Kankakee to Momence.— Price of Land.— Broom Corn.—Country from Momence to Monee;—Management and Produce. —Monee to Chicago. ..."

5. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"dairy farming Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion; wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there ? ..."

6. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times by William Cunningham (1892)
"And this is not unlikely; sheep farming enabled the landlord or -""tenant to dispense with labour and to depopulate his farm; for dairy farming and poultry ..."

7. Vocations for the Trained Woman: Opportunities Other Than Teaching by Perkins, Agnes Frances, 1875- (1910)
"I. dairy farming as a Permanent Occupation. Most women in dairy work to-day are on farms to which family association and ownership, not selection because of ..."

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