Complex sentence: A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family, usually an estate passed down by inheritance; this contrasts with farms operated as collectives, trusts, corporations or in other institutionalised forms.
Split into simpler sentences: A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family; it is sometimes considered to be an estate passed down by inheritance. It contrasts with farms operated as collectives, trusts, corporations or in other institutionalised forms.