under the plow
idiom
of land
: used for growing crops
The amount of local land under the plow is decreasing.
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The extra land put under the plow released a significant amount of carbon, enough to flip the assessment of corn ethanol from a carbon-negative fuel to a carbon-emitting one.
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Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2022
With much of the world’s prime farmland already under the plow, there’s not much wiggle room to feed those extra mouths.
—Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013
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Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2022
With much of the world’s prime farmland already under the plow, there’s not much wiggle room to feed those extra mouths.
—Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013
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