Noun
a minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)
Source: WordNetThe right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team. Al Franken
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. John Mahoney
If you prefer to watch sports, the Mississippi Braves – the Atlanta Braves' (AA) farm team – play baseball in the suburb of Pearl. Source: Internet
Farm proms: The Proms on the Farm team will hold the 2016 edition of its successful take on the Last night of the Proms on Saturday, July 23. The field will be open for people to get prepared at 2pm with the music starting at 7pm. Source: Internet
The lack of a "farm team," as we used to call it back in the days when I practiced politics rather than wrote about it, is deadly, not just in Texas but across the South and well into the Midwest. Source: Internet