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Recent Examples of cropland
Habitat loss has been insidious — croplands have been stripped of their bordering hedgerows and old fields and woodlots have been converted to housing developments.
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Bruce Beehler, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
This year, lawmakers rejected a bill to promote solar farms that coexist with cropland.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
The river and its tributaries provide water for about 5 million acres of cropland and pasture, hydroelectric power for millions of people, recreation in the Grand Canyon, and critical habitat for fish and other wildlife.
—Sarah Porter, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
Between 2016 and 2040, California is projected to lose more cropland to urbanization than any other state — over 300,000 acres — according to a 2022 American Farmland Trust study.
—Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Bruce Beehler, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
This year, lawmakers rejected a bill to promote solar farms that coexist with cropland.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
The river and its tributaries provide water for about 5 million acres of cropland and pasture, hydroelectric power for millions of people, recreation in the Grand Canyon, and critical habitat for fish and other wildlife.
—Sarah Porter, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
Between 2016 and 2040, California is projected to lose more cropland to urbanization than any other state — over 300,000 acres — according to a 2022 American Farmland Trust study.
—Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cropland
Noun
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Flora represents vast acres of farmland in California’s central valley.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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Production on the film began in 2023 in Yuba City, a small Northern California town surrounded by sprawling farmland, the same soil where Jay Dee grew up and once worked the fields before signing to Rancho in 2018.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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By the 1970s, innovations in fertilizer, pesticide and crop development, along with farm subsidies, led to a glut of grain.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many of the farms, which are traditionally passed down to men within a family, have been abandoned.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Cropland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cropland. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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