Extensive farming
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Extensive farming (as opposed to Intensive farming) is an agricultural production system over a vast area of land, such as the Great Plains. Unlike intensive farming, which must use chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators and pesticides to produce a large proportion of crop per unit area to cover the costs of high property value, extensive farming is practised on low-cost land and so doesn't require chemical stimulants.
Extensive farming most commonly refers to cereal cultivation and cattle farming in the Interior Plains and the Canadian prairies.
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