The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word HUSBANDRY
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More clues leading to the result HUSBANDRY
- Initially has sort of connection with railway’s sound management
- Farming partner given your backing
- Management having American bar alcohol-free after hours
- Farm work provides married man with endless cereal
- Farming hours now and then on group lines
- Thrift shown by old man not quite on the wagon
- Extremes of Australian bush unfortunately not the best for dairy farming
- Thrift makes old man cut drink
- One in union network gets farming task
- Mostly quiet group really discontented farming
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What does HUSBANDRY mean?
HUSBANDRY noun- The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
- Agricultural or cultivated land.