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Recent Examples of farmlandsAt their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
This way, truckers help pay for road improvements, and farmers--a big and influential electoral constituency--can work all day burning red fuel on their farms.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Oct. 2026
His team continues to preserve the natural environment whenever possible and farms organically, dry, and sustainably.
The collection reimagines Lee garments worn across America’s railways, ranches and rodeos from the 1920s to the 1940s through the creative lens of the late designer’s suiting label Ox’ed Silver.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2026
Costner played John Dutton, the powerful patriarch of the Dutton family and owner of the Yellowstone Ranch, one of the largest cattle ranches in the United States.
Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2026
Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.