cropland

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as in farmland

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Recent Examples of cropland In Brazil, both the Amazon rainforest and the vast grassland known as the Cerrado have been rapidly transformed through clearing and logging operations into pastures and cropland. — Literary Hub, 23 July 2026 Severance, which is 10 miles east of Fort Collins, is surrounded by irrigated croplands. — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2026 In the past eighteen months, three powerful hurricanes have destroyed countless homes and vast expanses of cropland, displacing more than a million people. — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2026 Anhydrous ammonia is caustic and must be handled as a compressed gas, but given the high nitrogen content, technology was developed to store and transport so it could be injected into cropland. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cropland
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  1. farmland
  2. farm
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  • Multigenerational operations close, farmland consolidates into industrial operations or converts to nonagricultural use, rural communities destabilize and food system resilience declines.
    — Jeff Tkach, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • North Carolina overall ranks second nationally for farmland loss with an acre of working land per hour going to urban development.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of farmland
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  • Few farms are affected by the tax, which already included some exemptions for agriculture.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Kashpirovskiy performing tricks and hypnotizing a kolkhoz [Soviet cooperative farm] audience.
    — Will Tizard, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026
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