medium-sized farm
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farm
noun[C]
uk/fɑːm/us/fɑːrm/
an area of land, together with a house and buildings, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals as ...
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(Definition offarmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is almost impossible now to gain a living wage by working a small ormedium-sizedfarm, without dipping into capital.
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My instinct is to favour the small tomedium-sizedfarm.
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Or, to put it in another context, it is the cost of amedium-sizedfarmon very poor land.
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We want the small farm, themedium-sizedfarm, and the large farm.
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Let us take the case for a moment of an owner-occupier with amedium-sizedfarm, a hundred acres or so.
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These are the small andmedium-sizedfarmbusinesses giving full-time employment to one or two men.
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Even with the price of corn at £120 an acre, that is a severe blow for someone with a small ormedium-sizedfarm.
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It is a wooden house on amedium-sizedfarmbuilt in the 1870s.
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At the same time, the most obviously impressive movements which take place are in the declining numbers of tenants holding small or medium-sized farms of, say, 5s to £1 in rent.
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The report considers the painful consequences for small and medium-sized farms to be a success.
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You yourself recognise that this proposed decoupling will create serious problems for many small and medium-sized farms, in less favoured and less productive areas.
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I do not agree that natural and commercial disasters, especially for small- and medium-sized farms, should generate profits for insurance capital.
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In my constituency, as a result of the wet summer of 1963, many driers were put in on medium-sized farms.
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However, since the current certification procedures are complex, time-consuming and, above all, expensive, their results have been negative, especially for small and medium-sized farms.
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Already, prices are insufficient for 80 % of small and medium-sized farms.
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This situation plunges thousands of small and medium-sized farms into serious financial difficulty.
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High rates of tax are to be levied on small and medium-sized farms which are held in a discretionary trust.
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In my constituency there are a lot of horticultural holdings and a lot of medium-sized farms, and the farms are getting bigger.
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They mentioned tenancy transfer in readiness for retirement, fiscal inducements to retain small and medium-sized farms, a sound rent formula and taxation changes.
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Some land would be suitable for letting as small farms, some for medium-sized farms and some for large farms.
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