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Agricultural investment funds, which treat farmland as a distinct asset class, grew tenfold between 2005 and 2018, yielding a rise in speculative investments in farmland.—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 Welcome to SouthPark, a neighborhood which evolved from farmlands into ashopping and business hub that is synonymous with the shopping mall of the same name.—Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2025 But paving over farmland and taking private property for speculative future needs isn’t the solution.—Joanne Frederick, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025 With the prairie getting plowed under and replaced almost completely by farmland, the prairie chicken lost its habitat, and is nearly extinct in Illinois.—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for farmland
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