Definition of Truck farming

1. Noun. Growing vegetables for the market.

Generic synonyms: Agriculture, Farming, Husbandry

Definition of Truck farming

1. Noun. (American English) The relatively small-scale growing of vegetables for market. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truck Farming

truceless
truces
truchman
truchmans
truchmen
trucial
trucidation
trucidations
trucing
truck-driver
truck bed
truck dealer
truck driver
truck farm
truck farming (current term)
truck garden
truck gardens
truck in
truck out
truck stop
truck traffic
truckable
truckage
truckages
truckbed
truckbeds
trucked
trucker
trucker's hitch

Literary usage of Truck farming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"... AND NURSERY PRODUCTS AND truck farming IN THE SOUTH. THE growing of fruit and vegetables is dependent upon certain favorable natural conditions. ..."

2. Introduction to Economics by Henry Rogers Seager (1904)
"Beyond the residence sites are plots devoted to truck-farming (C). In every city the line is somewhat roughly drawn between these two grades, and some land ..."

3. Introduction to Economics by Henry Rogers Seager (1905)
"Beyond the residence sites are plots devoted to truck-farming (C). In every city the line is somewhat roughly drawn between these two grades, and some land ..."

4. List of Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs by American Library Association, Mary Josephine Briggs (1914)
"... Marks (land) (s); Village communities Refer from Agriculture; Farm management; Gardening; Greenhouses; truck farming (s); Vegetable gardening (s); ..."

5. Workers of the Nation: An Encyclopedia of the Occupations of the American by Gilson Willets (1903)
"... and Organizations—The Vegetable Industry—Market Gardening and truck farming—The Truck Farmers' Associations—Market Men THE FRUIT INDUSTRY PROBABLY in no ..."

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