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.

History

Geography

Economic Viability

Subsidies

see Agricultural policy

Infrastructure

Rural Life

see Rural sociology

See Also

• Intensive farming
• Canadian Wheat Board