Intensive farming
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Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming, conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output pe
Intensive farming of wheat in Lund, Sweden
Early 20th-century image of a tractor ploughing an alfalfa field
Cow in enclosed pasture eating grass through wire fence
A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat
Intensive animal farming
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Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, also known as factory farming, is a type of intensive agriculture used by the meat and dairy industry to maximize animal pro
Intensive farming
…important way to decrease the amount of land needed for farming and slow and reverse environmental degradation caused by processes such as deforestation. Intensive animal farming involves large numbers of animals raised on a relatively small area of land, for example by rotational grazing, or sometimes as concentrated animal…
Hens in Brazil
Broiler chickens, bred for meat production, regularly have health issues, as their genetics have been optimized for quick growth, sometimes causing broiler ascites syndrome.
Pigs confined to a barn in an intensive system, Midwestern United States
Beef cattle on a feedlot in the Texas Panhandle. Such confinement creates more work for the farmer but allows the animals to grow rapidly.