A housing cooperative, or co-op, is a legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.
An alternative to leasing farmland is custom farming. The. custom operator agrees to perform all the machine opera-. tions on the ownerâs land in exchange for a set fee or rate. The landowner pays for all seed, chemicals, and other in-. puts, and keeps all of the crop and commodity payments.
Commercial Farming is when the main purpose of the farm is to sell agricultural products for a cash profit. Choices about what crops or animals to raise and how much to raise are determined by the market, not by the needs of the farmers and their families.