under the plow

phrase

of land

: used for growing crops

The amount of local land under the plow is decreasing.

Examples of under the plow in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The extra land put under the plow released a significant amount of carbon, enough to flip the assessment of corn ethanol from a carbon-negative fuel to a carbon-emitting one. — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2022

With much of the world’s prime farmland already under the plow, there’s not much wiggle room to feed those extra mouths. — Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013