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commercial farming

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commercial farming

Production of crops for sale and profit, although the farmers and their families may use a small amount of what they produce. Profits may be reinvested to improve the farm. Large-scale commercial farming is agribusiness; see also plantation and ranching. The opposite of commercial farming is subsistence farming where no food is produced for sale.



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Anthropologist Elizabeth Guillette found a community of farmers in the Yaqui Valley of Mexico that was divided by geography and culture when commercial farming came to town in the 1950s.
She highlights the ways that the general transition from subsistence to commercial farming transformed family relations and gender roles, noting that as men spent more time focusing on market production, women assumed more responsibility pursuing subsistence activities that could maintain their farm families.
In 2000, the Sweeres moved into commercial farming.
 
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