French Farm & Agriculture Vocabulary
Here you will find a complete list of French farm (la ferme) and agriculture (l’agriculture) vocabulary. This list covers a wide range of terms including buildings around the farm, types of farms, farming verbs, different kinds of farm crops (les cultures) as well as farm animals and livestock (le bétail). For a more complete list of French animal vocabulary please see the link below.
| la ferme farm | l’agriculture agriculture | le fermier farmer |
| l’agriculteur farmer | les terres cultivées farmland |
le champ field |
| la grange barn | le pré pasture | le bétail livestock |
| la clôture fence | la barrière gate | la haie hedge |
| la maison d’habitation farmhouse |
le tracteur tractor | la moissonneuse-batteuse combine harvester |
| la ferme de culture arable farm |
la ferme latière dairy farm |
la ferme d’élevage de moutons sheep farm |
| la ferme d’élevage porcin pig farm |
la ferme d’aviculture poultry farm |
l’exploitation frutière fruit farm |
| labourer to plough |
semer to sow |
arroser to water |
| récolter to harvest |
le silo silo | l’auge trough |
| planter to plant |
les cultures crops | le blé wheat |
| le maïs corn | l’orge barley | le colza rapeseed |
| le tabac tobacco | la luzerne alfalfa | le foin hay |
| le tournesol sunflower | le thé tea | le café coffee |
| le riz rice | le coton cotton | la canne à sucre sugarcane |
| le lin flax | le germe de soja soybeans | la vache cow |
| le veau calf | le cochon pig | le porcelet piglet |
| le taureau bull | le mouton sheep | l’âne donkey |
| le cheval chorse | le poulain foal | la chèvre goat |
| l’agneau lamb | le coq rooster | le dindon turkey |
| le poulet chicken | le poussin chick | le canard duck |
| le caneton duckling | l’enclos pen | le poulailler chicken coop |
| la porcherie pigsty/pigpen | l’écurie stable |
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