What are the requirements to be considered a farm?

Answer 1

The term "farm" now is quite as broad a term as any other word that used to have a specific meaning but nowadays doesn't. However, from my perspective, farms are areas of land larger than 10 acres (which are considered acreages, as most acreages range from 1 acre to 10 acres in size), and contain more than one animal that are considered livestock, including cattle (dairy and beef), chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, llamas, horses, etc. Farms also contain areas of land where machinery are used to sow and harvest plant matter as crops, be it hay or grain.

Farms don't have to have all species of livestock nor also contain cropping and haying systems. There are farms that specialize in what they produce. For example, crop farms are those farms that specialize in sowing, maintaining and harvesting cereal, rapeseed, or legume crops. Cattle farms specialize in the raising, care and sale of cattle; horse farms specialize in the rearing, care and sale of horses. Dairy farms specialize in the production of milk/dairy products. Most livestock farms today also have cropping systems in order to feed their animals, but they can also buy feed from other producers, if they so choose.

So essentially, farms primarily use the land and the weather to grow crops or grow forages to grow livestock in order to make an income. Requirements may be as follows:

- income from the sale of livestock or grain crops at more than $1,000

- expenses for maintainance, building, fixing machinery and veterinary bills for livestock over $100

- contains animals deemed as livestock including horses, fowl, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, or other exotic animals

- contains different types of pull-type machinery of more than 2 tons for tillage, seeding, herbicidal-use, cutting and harvesting, silaging, or haying

- have a vehicle capable of pulling implements included in #2 above as well as able to travel through rough, off-road terrain including tilled fields and fields with tall herbaceous plants (grasses and legumes); wheels of vehicle must be large with jutting treads to grip the rough ground but have enough force to easily pull implements behind (a.k.a a tractor)

- have a land area over 20 acres in size

- have facilities, buildings, Fencing and equipment for the care, health, and proper management of livestock being kept

Answer 2

Well the word large itself is considered an opinion word. So it is really your judgment on what you think a large farm is.