Commercial Farming – Mixed Crop and Livestock
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Farming that uses multiple crops and livestock to help promote steady yields and also
feed the animals.
The animals are often used to graze grasses or provide dung for fertilization.
The crops (barley and sorghum, maize and barley) are cycled on the same fields or
grown in succession to keep the soil healthy and fertile
This method produces the highest yields and prevents a farmer from putting all
his/her eggs in one basket – they don’t have to rely on one single crop doing well
Farmed with machines
Not labor intensive, but time consuming
Very efficient and requires a great deal of land
Found in: East Coast U.S. and Great Plains states, North West U.S., Northern Europe in
France, Germany, and Poland, some of Western Russia
GRAIN AND GRAZING IN Australia
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Cows grazing on cropland to help fertilize the soil prior to tillage
Chicken dung is used to fertilize a pond to help the growth of algae. This will help
support the fish in the pond for growth.
Cattle graze near coconut trees in Sri Lanka.