The activity of raising sheep or other livestock on high or hilly land.
North Devon is famous for its livestock and hill farming
Example sentencesExamples
- There's no point in a vision for 2060 if hill farming is dead by 2020.
- The economics of hill farming, which have for years been tenuous at best, have been made yet more tricky.
- The crisis has hit every part of the country where hill farming takes place.
- The first results of the commonage appeals process has been welcomed by a local hill farming representative.
- I think there will be no future for young people in hill farming with the way things are going.
- He mentioned that traditionally there has been slight resistance to a change from the hill farming community.
- A scheme aimed at bringing young people back into hill farming has brought fresh hope for the region's agricultural industry.
- The minister announced further reviews, with the milk industry and hill farming to be reported on this spring.
- The tough, economic realities of hill farming could challenge an ambitious scheme to create carpets from the fleece of hardy Herdwick sheep.
- We recognize the reality of the current economics of hill farming.