Breeding Farm - Breeding Farm

...There are some dairy businesses in urban areas that use the name "ranch," but operations that do not produce feed do not fit the definition of a ranch. Ranches can be classified according to their purpose into breeding ranches, which raise excellent foundation livestock and breed them in special lines to produce and supply breeding stock that are useful for improvement, rearing ranches, which take in growing livestock for a certain period of time and manage them by grazing them in pastures, and production ranches, which raise practical livestock and supply and sell their products. Recently, tourist ranches have appeared that are run on the income from tourists, but their characteristics are somewhat different from traditional ranches. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "training farms" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…都市近郊の搾乳業者で牧場の名を用いている例もあるが，飼料生産を行っていない経営は牧場の定義に合致しない。牧場をその目的によって分類すると，優秀な基礎畜を繫養して特別な系統繁殖を行い，改良に役だつ種畜の生産，供給を目的とする種畜牧場，発育期にある家畜を一定期間あずかって牧野に放牧し管理する育成牧場，実用畜を飼養して生産物の供給販売を目的とする生産牧場などに分けられる。最近は観光客による収入を経営基盤とする観光牧場というものも現れているが，本来の牧場とは若干性格を異にする。…

※「育成牧場」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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