farmland

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Recent Examples of farmland Copernicus What To Know CNN reported that video from its local affiliate KFSN-TV showed fire and thick black smoke rising from the crash site in flat, open farmland near the air station, around 40 miles southwest of Fresno in central California. Anna Commander robert Birsel john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025 The Ada County commissioners would determine what is farmland of local importance. Idaho Statesman, 31 July 2025 The company has plans for a smaller project in Kenosha. Data centers planned in Caledonia, Port Washington A pitch for a data center in Caledonia, in Racine County, recently ran into resistance as community members spoke out against rezoning 240 acres of farmland. Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 2 Aug. 2025 In each interaction, as well as in the sweeping shots of the midwestern farmland, Lynch lingers. Matthew Schnipper, Vulture, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for farmland
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Noun
  • 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
  • Then, the region’s city began to construct buildings associated with government along with canals that stretched from the new river location to the region’s croplands.
    Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In 1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened on a farm in Bethel, New York.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • About an hour west of Twin Lake the next day, Gilbert sat with Sam Myers, who runs a fourth-generation wheat farm that the B2H line would transect.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Such an outbreak is not particularly surprising; the reason the vast majority of milk is pasteurized (heated briefly to kill germs) is because milk can easily pick up nasty pathogens in the farmyard that can cause severe illnesses, particularly in children.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2025
  • Participants still run a pet center, but also work at a farmyard with cows, goats and other animals, a restaurant and bakery, a country store, a thrift shop, and Lambs Industries, which offers production services, such as assembling, sorting or packaging products.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • In addition, both had childhood experiences at their grandparents’ hobby farms: Schneider’s grandfather had a horse ranch and vegetable farm in Michigan, and Alem’s grandmother grew corn, tomatoes and cucumbers in Louisiana.
    Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The pair became a Hollywood power couple and tied the knot in 1988 during a top-secret ceremony at Reynolds' ranch in Jupiter, Fla., which was documented by PEOPLE.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 3 Aug. 2025

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