How to Use agribusiness in a Sentence

agribusiness

noun

• Several large agribusinesses own most of the farms around here.
• The irony is that agribusiness is booming in the country.
  — Fabiana Batista, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2020
• Health care ranked ahead of lawyers, labor, and agribusiness.
  — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
• In the last six months, the prospects for food, beverage, and agribusiness have started to turn around.
  — Colin Guheen, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Tall and sinewy, Mr. Blocker, 41, is a study in the contrasts of modern agribusiness.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• But in the Philippines, disputes linked to agribusiness led to half of the killings, according to the research.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 30 July 2019
• One is a small rural agribusiness union in Castro in Paraná state.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• The state favours agribusiness and plantations over small farmers.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• In the case of Brazil, China is the destination of 40% of Brazilian agribusiness exports.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
• The list included a small agribusiness union and a small timber company, also from the south.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• Breeders also need to go beyond the field to understand the needs of women in agribusiness at every stage of the value chain.
  — Vivian Polar, Scientific American, 25 July 2022
• But with real estate values soaring in the area, the agribusiness giant isn't waiting to cash in with a sale of the 2.2-acre property.
  — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Conservation groups that oppose the pumps say the new plan largely mirrors the old one, and that the project would hurt the environment to help agribusiness.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• Green said students will get the education needed to work on the cutting edge of agribusiness and dairy sciences.
  — Keith Ridler, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• Vadatursky’s agribusiness, Nibulon, includes a fleet of ships for sending grain abroad.
  — Susie Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022
• Vadatursky's agribusiness, Nibulon, includes a fleet of ships for sending grain abroad.
  — Susie Blann, ajc, 31 July 2022
• Elias echoed the pope’s concern, saying that forests are being clear-cut to make way for large-scale agribusiness, including sugar cane.
  — Lucien Chauvin, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• Babis, 68, is one of the wealthiest Czechs, owning an empire that spans from agribusiness and chemicals to media.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• Serving the affluent, not the poor These profound changes show how and where agriculture and agribusiness are responding to the growth of the global middle class.
  — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
• Acts of sabotage and deadly protests against agribusiness and mining companies have erupted in the past.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2022
• Costs are going to be passed on to consumers as much as possible, says Kevin Bergquist, a Wells Fargo food and agribusiness consultant.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2021
• In Des Moines, residents are more likely to work in the insurance industry than in agribusiness.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2020
• The buyers are huge agribusiness corporations or hedge funds.
  — Edward Ring, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• These disputes often arise over mining, agribusiness, logging, and dam projects.
  — Author: Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2018
• In 2016, agribusiness saw two cents of every food dollar, according to USDA.
  — Caitlin Dewey, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 May 2018
• During the last drought, agribusiness was blamed for over-pumping groundwater, causing the land to sink and wells in some poor rural communities to go dry.
  — Brian Melley, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• But, at that time, there was too much supply, which depressed prices, according to Kevin Bergquist, a Wells Fargo food and agribusiness consultant, who wrote the report.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2021
• That means many companies - from local grain companies to agribusiness giants such as Cargill and ADM - could wind up paying more for crops than co-ops.
  — Steve Karnowski, Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• The regenerative farming movement is relatively small, but it’s gained steam in recent years thanks to federal support and agribusinesses eager to align their supply chains and sustainability goals.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• Economic shifts like the decline of manufacturing, regulations on extraction industries like logging, mining, and fishing, and the rise of large-scale agribusinesses have reshaped everyday life for people in small towns and rural areas.
  — Richard E. Ocejo, TIME, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024