agricultural holding

Classifiers Filled

Family

Thing Registry

Category

Society, people and institutions

Entry kind

thing

Plane

SOC

Domain

SOC.ORG

Other names and narrower kinds

Schweighof, Quiñón, vinegar cellar, viticulture plant, bee farm, civil partnership in the form of an agricultural company (BV LV), latifundium, Volkseigenes Gut, VEG Zingst, VEG Klockenhagen, VEG Vorder Bollhagen

What it is Filled

A single unit of agricultural production under one management, including crops and livestock, used as the basic unit in agricultural censuses and EU statistics, taking forms such as family farms, agricultural companies and cooperatives, and specialised holdings such as bee farms and viticulture operations; the registry aliases also include historical and regional forms, such as the Schwaighof, a medieval Alpine dairy farm granted by lords, and the quinon, a land allotment in Spanish colonial and Philippine contexts, a vinegar cellar, which is a food production facility, and a Czech civil partnership form of agricultural company, which appear loosely filed. Agricultural holdings are subject to land, subsidy, animal welfare and environmental rules.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain agricultural holdings, relay statistical definitions, legal forms, types and policy context from FAO, Eurostat and agricultural policy sources, describe the named forms and flag loosely filed aliases, and distinguish agricultural holdings from land parcels, agribusiness corporations, food processing facilities and rural households.

Distinguishing features Filled

• Single management
• Statistical unit
• Varied legal forms
• Policy target

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

• Disclose data on an individual holding that a census promises to keep confidential.
• Apply for subsidies or change registrations on a holding without its manager's authority.
• Misstate the area, crops or livestock of a holding in a declaration.
• Share a farm's location and assets in a way that exposes it to theft.

Only with a human decision

• Submitting subsidy claims or regulatory declarations for a holding.
• Decisions to cull livestock or change land use on a holding.

May

• Record holdings, land use and livestock for the farmer or the census it is authorized to support.
• Report statistics on agricultural holdings from official censuses and surveys.

Moral aspects Filled

• Holdings are often family livelihoods, and errors in declarations can cost farmers support or bring penalties.
• Farm data reveals personal and financial details of households.

Who is affected

• Farmers and farm families
• Farm workers
• Livestock on the holding

Owners Filled

Steward

The holder who manages it; agricultural authorities keep the holding register used for censuses and payments.

Master systems

• Farm and holding registers of agricultural authorities
• Agricultural census

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

• Q362482 - registry parent class
• Q4830453 - registry parent class

related

• business - in registry terms
• agricultural census
• family farm
• vinegar - loosely filed production alias

Sources Filled

1. Wikidata item Q3062125: agricultural holding - identity and sense of the item
2. Wikipedia: Agricultural holding - general description of the item

Open questions

• The registry aliases vinegar cellar and quinon should be reviewed and moved where appropriate
• Should Schwaighof be a separate historical entry?
• How should agricultural census data be linked?

Machine files

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3062125/spec.json