Like any word, "farm" means different things to different people - in different contexts.
You didn't give it a working definition, so as asked, there is no one answer. You can call a kitchen garden a farm, but it won't fit the legal descriptoin of a farm for your tax assessor.
If you ever read legal documents there is one universal warning. Any word used in a legal document MUST be defined within the same document. If not - it's meaning shall be taken at "street value" and becomes, more-or-less, useless.
We had a "farm" battle here a few years ago. This is a rural dairy farming area - but is changing. City people moving in like seeing green fields, or neat rows of corn - but don't like much else - like cow maunure, slow tractors on roads, cows crossing roads, etc.
Some summer-only city-jerk moved in, read all the small print in our local laws, and found out that "farming" was illegal within the village. His gripe at the time was a neighbor with a pet donkey. So the battle began. He threatened to sue the town if it did not enforce the law. The town attorney said that if the town wanted to enforce it - they could not target just one person. Everybody must be held to the same. Then the question came up - what is farming? - since it is not defined in that law. What is the difference between mowing your lawn and mowing hay? When does a legally owned homeowner-tractor become an illegal farm tractor? Is a horse always a farm animal? Many heated discussions evolved over this. Finally found that, according to New York Agriculture and Markets - dogs and cats are controlled under Ag. laws. So, if illegal farming was to banned - perhaps all dogs and cats must go also. It could of gone on forever - and finally got dropped. The city guy finally moved out of town.
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Today's Featured Article - Good As New - by Bill Goodwin. In the summer of 1995, my father, Russ Goodwin, and I acquired the 1945 Farmall B that my grandfather used as an overseer on a farm in Waynesboro, Georgia. After my grandfather’s death in 1955, J.P. Rollins, son of the landowner, used the tractor. In the winter 1985, while in his possession the engine block cracked and was unrepairable. He had told my father
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