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D-mixed-farming Dictionary

Mixed Farming

Running more than one enterprise on the same land so that each one feeds the others, such as crops and livestock

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Plain meaning
Running more than one enterprise on the same land so that each one feeds the others, such as crops and livestock
How to use it
Choose one main enterprise and add a second only where it uses the first one's waste, labour gaps or feed.
South African benchmark
On South African farms, maize, oilseed residues and fodder commonly feed cattle, pigs and poultry on the same farm.
Country notes
Crop and livestock farming side by side is the traditional pattern across Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia.
Go and read
C3 Lesson 3.6
Calculate it
T-C-01 Land Use Planner shows whether a second enterprise earns its share of the land.
Library sources
LIB-A003
See also
Farm strategy, Gross margin
Bar diagram of break-even yield, yield achieved and yield achievable, showing the yield gapThe yield gap on one hectareBreak-even yieldcovers all costsYield achievedwhat the farm gets nowYield achievablebest practice on this landBreak-even lineYield gap= money leftin the field
From Module 3, Productivity Economics, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in C3 Productivity Economics.