farmland
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farmlands
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The Essex parliamentary seat includes rural villages, thousands of hectares of farmland and several seaside towns and villages with glistening golden beaches including Jaywick, Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
No public meetings or votes took place before a lone city staffer gave the company the green light last July to build the 438,500-square-foot facility on 56 acres of farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
China is mostly mentioned in agribusiness over concerns about farmland ownership or import commitments on soybeans and beef.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Nelson, who grew up in rural Abbott, Texas, and has a home there, called attention to the destructive environmental effects—“water thieving,” he wrote—and the impact on farmland, including small family farmers’ livelihoods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
She remembers the muscles in her calves and the strength in her thighs, and she remembers the heat of the farmland and the slope of the mountains and the miles and miles she’s crossed.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
The Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District provides water to farmlands in Pinal County, where growers are dealing with water cutbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
In addition to these are wildfires that break out naturally because of dry conditions in forests and farmlands.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
"We have lost quite a number of farmlands with massive erosion, and the farm plants that we had planted ," said the chief of Nyakach, Seth Oluoch Agwanda, 57.
From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026
The country’s minority whites, mainly descendants of Dutch and other European settlers in South Africa, are some of the richest in the continent’s most advanced economy, owning vast farmlands, factories and other business empires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
In the distance, beyond the shacks, I saw spruce and pine trees interspersed with farmlands.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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