farmed

adjective

ˈfärmd 

1

: grown, bred, or raised on a farm

… a specially filleted Grade-A piece of the best of the farmed North American channel catfish.

—Paul Greenberg

The breeding farms … raise the possibility that farmed birds were the source of the outbreak.

—Declan Butler

2

: used for farming : managed and cultivated as farmland

In contrast, the valley had been a farmed and peaceful enclave right up until the end—and therefore was uncontested land of the sort that might normally have remained clean in a war.

—William Langewiesche

Examples of farmed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Consider farmed animals: Billions live in confinement, deprived of autonomy, dignity and joy. —Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025

Around 70 percent of antibiotics important in human medicine are fed to farmed animals, both in the US and globally. —Kenny Torrella, Vox, 1 Mar. 2025

Most soy grown in the US is fed to farmed animals, while another chunk is used to make subsidized biofuels. —Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 6 Mar. 2025

Historically, the virus − which has been around for decades, has mostly affected farmed poultry. —Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1800, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for farmed

• alarmed
• disarmed
• unarmed
• unharmed
• armed
• charmed
• harmed