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.
1. : farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale. 2. : farming or a system of farming that produces a minimum and often inadequate return to the farmer âcalled also subsistence agriculture.