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a kind of farming in which people raise animals for meat, milk, eggs, etc.
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Recent Examples of animal husbandry
Their findings add strong evidence that the rise of animal husbandry forever shaped humanity’s relationship with disease, though the timing defied their expectations.
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Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
Last year, a new animal husbandry ordinance permitted residents to own honey bees, as well as chickens and ducks.
—Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 17 July 2025
The plight of the honeybee, Hung explained, should be viewed as a matter of animal husbandry — the branch of agriculture that focuses on raising animals for production of food and other items.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 7 July 2025
And then, yeah, moved into some really exciting use cases and things like animal husbandry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024
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Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
Last year, a new animal husbandry ordinance permitted residents to own honey bees, as well as chickens and ducks.
—Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 17 July 2025
The plight of the honeybee, Hung explained, should be viewed as a matter of animal husbandry — the branch of agriculture that focuses on raising animals for production of food and other items.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 7 July 2025
And then, yeah, moved into some really exciting use cases and things like animal husbandry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for animal husbandry
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Lula was accompanied by 11 ministers, including those of foreign affairs, finance, health and agriculture, as well as a large delegation of business leaders.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Campbell Vaughn is an agriculture and natural resources agent for the University of Georgia Extension Service in Augusta, Georgia.—
Campbell Vaughn,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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Reports commissioned by Molly Scott Cato, the Green Party MEP for Southwest England, and others revolve around mixed farming, increasing biodiversity, and addressing big issues such as loss of topsoil and supporting farming communities.—
Craig Ballinger,
Slate Magazine,
20 Mar. 2017
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Anthropologists and historians alike are also starting to reassess the causes and effects of the emergence of farming.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Sixth-generation farmer Cannon Michael in California’s Central Valley discussed the complexity of farming, from fluctuating prices and pest pressures to the increasing impacts of climate change.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
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Going to the Super Bowl is about participating in monoculture while simultaneously asserting your singularity.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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And then, before everyone was sent home to the land of ICE, the closing night of GJWW provided a pure, epic bacchanal of covers from the 1990s, arguably the last era in which there was anything resembling a pop monoculture.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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Frachetti, who specializes in pastoralism in the Bronze Age, was also not involved with the study.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
18 Nov. 2025
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As forests receded—along with the elk—people in the Altai region began adopting semi-nomadic pastoralism and horseback riding.—
Margherita Bassi,
Popular Science,
24 July 2025
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The Cannabis Control Commission voted Thursday to schedule a public hearing on a potential freeze of new cultivation licenses and a temporary moratorium on approving additional canopy capacity.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
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These grants can cover cleanups and sustainable cultivation projects, or even related efforts such as fish conservation.—
Rachel Becker,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Lisa Whittlesey is a gardening expert and the program specialist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Senior Extension Program.—
Michelle Mastro,
The Spruce,
19 Feb. 2026
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Since 1999, Nicole has been a designer, copy editor, family columnist, and covered style, home design, gardening and other news-you-can-use topics.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Feb. 2026
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While wolf populations have risen across Europe, the most popular explanation in Finland for the record number of wolf attacks in the northern reindeer husbandry regions lies hundreds of miles away: deep in the Russian trenches of Ukraine.—
Mick Krever,
CNN Money,
22 Dec. 2025
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In Bulgaria, village music was typically sung by peasants while tending to agriculture and husbandry; at weddings; and to express national pride.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Animal husbandry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animal%20husbandry. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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