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1. A large-scale farming enterprise
   - agribusiness, factory farm
    
2. The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
   - farming, husbandry
    
3. The class of people engaged in growing food

1. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
   - Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, USDA

Derived forms: agricultures

Type of: business, business enterprise, class, commercial enterprise, cultivation, executive department, social class, socio-economic class, stratum

Encyclopedia: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee