Large-scale agriculture treated as a business enterprise, involving modern machinery, chemicals, and methods to maximize profit and production.
A 20th-century compound combining agriculture and business. Agriculture comes from Latin agr- (field) and cultura (cultivation), while business comes from Old English bisignian meaning 'to occupy.' The term emerged in the 1950s as farming became industrialized.
Agribusiness is a relatively new word for an ancient activity, created exactly when farming stopped being about feeding your family and became about producing thousands of tons of corn or soybeans for global markets—marking a fundamental shift in how humans relate to food.
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