farmland

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Recent Examples of farmland The money is part of $1.5 billion announced Wednesday for the USDA's Regional Conservation Partnership Program, which gives federal resources to local partners working on natural resource challenges on farmland. Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024 James Dyson, the business magnate behind electronics giant Dyson, slammed Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s measures to increase taxes, including on the inheritance of farmland worth above £1 million in value. Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 4 Nov. 2024 The cozy dwelling is designed for maximum comfort and is surrounded by 120 acres of farmland. Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024 By Don Steinberg October 30, 2024 7:53 AM EDT Cramming 40 acres of farmland into one acre in its Texas greenhouses, indoor vertical farmer Eden Green this year grew and shipped a full suite of ten herbs out of a single facility, where each herb has its own micro-climate. Don Steinberg, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for farmland 
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Noun
  • This type of farming remains an important form of agriculture in many regions, primarily in Africa and parts of Asia, where it is practiced on about 25 million acres, about the same amount of cropland as found in Italy.
    Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Researchers project that large portions of the Central Valley’s irrigated cropland will need to be permanently left dry to comply with the restrictions.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • North Carolina estimates the storm caused at least $48.8 billion in direct or indirect damages with houses, drinking water systems, farms and forests destroyed.
    ISABELLA O’MALLEY AND MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Each holiday season, the Christmas in Coal Country experience evokes the region’s mining history on a one-hour Christmas train ride (in cozy cars heated by authentic coal stoves) that meanders through the hills, farms, and forests where miners and their families once lived.
    Allison Tibaldi, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Old Trafford was good for ducks of the farmyard variety.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo has announced the arrival of five new Guinea hog piglets to the farmyard family, according to a release.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • While another ranch hand ran off to get a rifle to shoot the wild horse, his character could not escape.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The spouses purchased a working cattle ranch in Raymond, Calif., and have spent more than 30 years running it.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

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