farmland
land under cultivation or capable of being cultivated: to protect valuable farmland from erosion.
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How to use farmland in a sentence
In 1938, this sediment made for rich farmland, but Walter Stopa thought this particular hill had a higher purpose than agriculture.
Researchers have found that a cash payment program targeted at the rural poor in Indonesia also led to a 30 percent reduction in deforestation, as struggling communities tend to clear more farmland.
You’ve talked about how Queens and the Bronx were farmland originally.
A Leading NYC Mayoral Candidate Thinks Roof Farms Can Save America’s Cities | Amanda Kludt | January 14, 2021 | EaterUrbanization only makes this harder, cutting the amount of farmland available and putting more people in closer proximity to each other.
Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming | Katie McLean | October 13, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThat farmland is partly taken up by the animals themselves, but it’s also used to grow crops like corn and soy exclusively for animal consumption.
A New Factory in France Will Mass-Produce Bugs as Food | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | October 8, 2020 | Singularity Hub
The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland.
No lasting jobs, no cheaper gas, and a chance to kill off one-fourth of U.S. farmland and maybe the planet.
The Pipeline From Hell: There’s No Good Reason to Build Keystone XL | Jack Holmes | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1934 crops had failed on more than six million acres of Texas farmland.
‘The Harness Maker’s Dream:’ The Unlikely Ranch King of Texas | Nick Kotz | September 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese counties have inner-ring and outer-ring suburbs, still further out exurbs, and even a few patches of farmland.
It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland.
I have traveled through miles of this farmland in France, and its beauty was a splendid poem of what God had helped man to do.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianAnd to leave her in farmland would be to let her slip back again out of accord with him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyHis mind dwelt longingly upon Hascombe Hall and the acres of parkland, moorland, and farmland that were its inheritance.
The Honorable Percival | Alice Hegan RiceThese we reached and crossed safely, finding ourselves once again in farmland and a country of hedges and dykes.
13 Days | John Alan Lyde CaunterThe marvel of the place to me was the thousands and thousands of acres of splendid farmland on which no one lived.
A Labrador Doctor | Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
British Dictionary definitions for farmland
/ (ˈfɑːmˌlænd) /
land used or suitable for farming
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