I want the word for an area of land on a farm where crops are grown...?

Question

'plot of land' comes to mind but it makes me think of a funeral, and I want to avoid that - even if it's the correct terminology.

Answer 1

i'm going to go with field

Answer 2

What you call it depends on what it is.

It might be a farm, if the whole farm is cropland.

It might be  several fields or one.

It might be  a range, if the crop grown is usually hay or pasture.

If it is tree fruit we call it an orchard. When we grow walnuts, we call it a goldmine.

Answer 3

field ie: corn field, soybean field, tomato field etc

Answer 4

ONE GROWS CORN IN A CORNFIELD

Answer 5

I will second Springda...'s answer and say Plot as well.

Answer 6

Field, for sure.

i.e. wheat field, corn field

Answer 7

what I call the land I grow my crops is a field,where I grow my vegetables is a garden!

Answer 8

a parcle of land

Answer 9

Hmmm, This is a tough one. I can see your problem here. It is definately called a field, but you have to put something else with to distinguish it from the grazing land because that is a field as well. So, why not go with soybean field, pasture field, etc.

Answer 10

Ok, this is pretty complicated, but try cropfield.  It's generic for any field that's planted in non-permanent crops.  Cropland is land planted to crops every year or every few years and can apply to several or all the cropfields on a farm, state, nation, etc.  Land in permanent grass is pasture, range or rangeland.

Answer 11

Here are some names:

Arable land - lands suitable for agriculture in a country.

Plantation - Large holdings of agricultural lands

Livestock - animals raised for sale

Husbandry - the science of rearing animals or plants

Plots - small areas within a larger area for planting

Subsistence Farming - farming on small plots for domestic use.

Answer 12

Crop land would be where the current year's crops are grown.  Fallow land would be where you are allowing crop land sit idle for a time (for various reasons).  Set-aside land would be former crop land that is in various government programs where you are paid not to farm and to maintain a ground cover.  Waste area would be the part not cropped, fallowed, or set aside.  Conservation areas or conservation strips are areas with a purpose -- either as wetlands, sediment traps, or areas such as hillsides managed to preserve topsoil and reduce runoff and erosion.  Pasture and rangeland describe areas not farmed but managed for grazing.

Answer 13

Typically farms refer to acres of land in production.  An acre is 43,560 square feet.  There are 640 acres in a square mile, also called a section of land.  Each section can be split into many different portions, 1/2 section would be 320 acres, 1/4 section would be 160 acres. A quarter of a quarter section would be 40 acres.

Some farmers refer to " I have a quarter section (160 acres) in soybean procuction and a half section (320 acres) in corn production".  Others just say I have 160 acres planted to oats (or whatever crop they are planting.)

In the English (metric system) areas of land are referred to in hectares.