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.
farming, husbandry. 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. arboriculture, tree farming - the cultivation of tree for the production of timber. dairy farming, dairying - the business of a dairy.