Examples of cropland in a Sentence
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Agent Orange was sprayed on more than 5 million acres of forests and croplands.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
Some agricultural economists and agronomists counter that taking even small amounts of the best cropland out of production for solar development and damaging valuable topsoil impacts future crop potential in the United States.
—P.j. Huffstutter and Christopher Walljasper, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
But environmental benefits accrue only if existing cropland is converted to oil palms.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
This shift has improved soil health, cut cropland erosion and advanced the ability of soil to act as a crucial carbon sink.
—Magi Richani, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
In their model, going from no organic fields at all to 5% of cropland being organic was associated with a 9% hike in insecticide use in Kern County.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Minnesota’s buffer law was a step in the right direction by requiring a distance between cropland and waterways or bodies of water.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers whose work was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
—Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
Some agricultural economists and agronomists counter that taking even small amounts of the best cropland out of production for solar development and damaging valuable topsoil impacts future crop potential in the United States.
—P.j. Huffstutter and Christopher Walljasper, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
But environmental benefits accrue only if existing cropland is converted to oil palms.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
This shift has improved soil health, cut cropland erosion and advanced the ability of soil to act as a crucial carbon sink.
—Magi Richani, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
In their model, going from no organic fields at all to 5% of cropland being organic was associated with a 9% hike in insecticide use in Kern County.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Minnesota’s buffer law was a step in the right direction by requiring a distance between cropland and waterways or bodies of water.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers whose work was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
—Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
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cropland
noun
crop·land
ˈkräp-ˌland 
: land on which crops are grown
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