Subsistence farming is growing food for a family on a small plot of land. A hobby farm is less than 50 acres. Anything between 50 to 100 acres is a small-scale farm. Small family farms average 231 acres; large family farms average 1,421 acres. Primitive, commercial, dry, plantation, and intensive are types of farming.
A hobby farm is a smallholding maintained for recreation, not as a primary income. Subsistence farming is out of necessity on poor soil with limited resources. Small farms, called smallholdings, focus on self-sufficiency, selling any surplus.
Extensive farming uses small inputs of labor and fertilizers relative to the land farmed. Small farms produce less than $250,000 in gross income. The farmer’s wife is called a farmhand.
Large farms or groups of farms may be called an estate. Farmers with less than 2 hectares are small farmers; less than 1 hectare are marginal. Conservationist, deliberative, productivist and traditionalist are types of farmers. Peasant farmers lived in small villages, working family farms.
What is another name for a small farm?
- A smallholding.
What are farmers with small farms called?
- Small farmers or marginal farmers, depending on the size of their land.