[Adelaide University, Australia] n What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media Associated with a {crash} Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again "
Stock-raising, where the stock is domesticated, and agriculture - the sowing and harvesting of domesticated plants It is usually assumed that the process of sowing includes systematic turning over of the soil either by human labour (digging, using a foot-plough) or by using animal traction to pull a plough
Began during the Neolithic when man moved from the hunter-gatherer to a less nomadic existence, being found in the Near East by around 8000 BC, in Greece around 6500 BC, and Britain by 4000 BC See Agriculture, Cattle, Complex society, Domestication
working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Includes: (i) The use of land for orchards (ii) The use of trees as shelter belts to mitigate the effects of wind on pastures, crops, or orchards (iii) The maintenance of any area of land on which trees, shrubs, plants, or grasses are maintained under section 134 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 Does note include: Farm forestry or any other type of commercial or semi-commercial forestry