greggy said:Good question.
I see lot of people on youtube in US with a few acres saying they have a ranch....
Frankly, even a hundred acres here is not a farm, that is a lifestyle or residential block, a farm really needs to be thousands, or hundreds of thousands of acres.
Sometimes small blocks like 5, 10, 40 acre etc are called "hobby farms"
I suppose the difference here is a farm is a commercial business, anything else is a hobby, a liability, and lifestyle choice. You need something to keep the grass down, unless you like burning fossil fuels and goin round in circles all the time (not me).
Interesting. One hundred acres here would be called a farm. I'm not sure what the minimum acres would be here to call it a farm. I suppose it depends on how one uses it as well. If it were just 100 acres just sitting there with no barns or livestock, one might just say they own some land or "I own 100 acres." If one is doing farm activities, however, it would be called a farm.
I'm sure nobody is making a living here with 100 acres today, but in my grandparent's day they did, and that land is still called a farm today.