What's arable farming again?

[jeanette1976]

Is it stuff like vegetables or fruit?

Sorry, got my blonde wig on today...

[Kleiber]

It's stuff like corn, wheat, barley etc

[Clanad]

In the sense that crops are, generally the grains and seeds included in Kleiber's post, the actual meaning of the term is applied as follows:

Fit for cultivation, as by plowing.
n.
Land fit to be cultivated.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin arbilis, from arre, to plow.] (Source: American Heritage Dictionary).

Our County extension Agent here in the western U.S. agrees with that definition, as opposed to say, pasture or grass growing areas. The operable word in the definition is cultivated... as in plowing. Although, most small grains here in the arid west are now grown with low till or no till practices...

[Kleiber]

Wow, Clannad!!