agriculture

Noun

• the class of people engaged in growing food

• the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

• the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

• a large-scale farming enterprise

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Department of Agriculture , Agriculture Department , Agriculture , USDA , farming , husbandry , agribusiness , factory farm