farmland
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Many young people have left rural communities to work in towns and cities, abandoning farmland that historically provided some of the best protection against fires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Colorado River provides water for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland, from the Rocky Mountains to Southern California and northern Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In May, the powerful Imperial Irrigation District nixed Rucci’s plan to buy farmland, leave it fallow and use the allotted water from the Colorado River to cool the data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
As curlews like to nest on farmland, Parker praised the farming community for being "really supportive" of conservation efforts.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
She reckons nobody'll pay to clean up the mess, so that much of the farmland on the islands'll be off-limits until the mines've rusted.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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 water infrastructure system that California built over the last century, she said, depends heavily on snow naturally storing water and then gradually releasing snowmelt into reservoirs to serve cities and farmlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
Mesoamerican corn and beans took 3,000 and 4,000 years, respectively, to cover the 700 miles from Mexico’s farmlands to the eastern U.S. farmlands.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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