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

The World Wildlife Fund, for one, is working to develop enforceable standards that reduce negative environmental and social impacts and ensure quality and safety, while improving aquaculture practices through tech innovations like forensic analysis of farmed products. —Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024

Last month, dozens of dog farmers and breeders protested the bill outside the presidential office in Seoul with many bringing their farmed dogs in cages, according to Reuters. —Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024

However, Cygnus Ocean does not have a permit for commercial export of their farmed fish, according to the environmental groups. —CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023

Like a scene from Piranha, the foreign fish — industrially farmed salmon that companies bred in open-net pens — escaped enclosures in Iceland’s western fjords and entered the country’s rivers at various points in the past few months. —Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023

In China, both row crops and farmed animals have been killed by heat waves. —WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023

This is an integral part of nature-friendly regenerative farming, where crops and farmed animals are kept more naturally without the use of lots of insect-killing chemical pesticides. —Philip Lymbery, Time, 27 July 2023

And in 2022, a farmer in Yibin, in southwestern Sichuan province, reported that six of his farmed crocodiles went missing, prompting the city to issue a warning to swimmers. —Lyric Li, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023

In some cases, the fish are genetically modified, which then causes issues if the holding pens are breached, and farmed fish end up in the wild. —Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1800, in the meaning defined at sense 2