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.
Noun. 1. farming-the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock. husbandry, agriculture. cultivation - (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale). animal husbandry-breeding and caring for farm animals.lanting-putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; the planting of corn is hard work. ranching-farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle). strip cropping-cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion.