How to Use agricultural in a Sentence

agricultural

adjective
  • The farmer represents the state’s agricultural roots, while the sailor is for the state's ties to the sea.
    Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Broilers and eggs are one of the largest agricultural commodities in the state.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Many vessels depart from the port to ship grain and other agricultural products across the Black Sea.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The New Orleans port is one of the nation’s busiest for agricultural exports like soybeans and corn.
    Ana Swanson Edmund D. Fountain, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the fears of what an AMA plan would look like for an agricultural community have already been put to the test in the Douglas basin.
    Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In the agricultural year ending Aug. 31, the United States handed the corn-exporting crown to Brazil.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The property has 15 lakes and thousands of acres of grazing and agricultural land.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
  • Efrem Lukatsky’s from-on-high view of a crater left in an agricultural field by a Russian missile might look at first glance like a crop circle.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And then there’s the food — in agricultural communities like these, much of it is local.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The 17-mile stretch of I-80 where the toll lanes will go sits along bucolic agricultural lands, between the college town of Davis and the bustle of Sacramento.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • Then there is the war’s impact on Ukraine’s agricultural sector.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Many of them are agricultural workers from the country’s northeast region of Isaan.
    Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Blame the recent rain, which sent storm runoff from agricultural fields and homes into bays where the mollusks are harvested.
    Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The Netherlands is the No. 2 global exporter of agricultural products.
    Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Trees are a crucial aspect of the agricultural practices of farmers in the High Atlas region.
    Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The agricultural district in the San Joaquin Valley is centered around Stockton.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • More than 600 tons of agricultural products are stuck in Gaza, unable to be exported.
    Elliott Gotkine, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • The notion of leaving agricultural land idle to save water has become somewhat in vogue.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The plane Zamora refers to is used for spraying pesticides over agricultural fields.
    Palabra, al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • All of us together do not just send Ukrainian agricultural products to those countries that suffer the most from the food crisis.
    Sam Mednick and Jamey Keaten, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
  • These tensions have come to a head once again during the hurricane that has killed at least eight in Puerto Rico and posed a grave threat to the country’s agricultural future.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Most of the barge traffic moving south this time of year is carrying agricultural products.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And that does not include other types of agricultural lands, or natural lands.
    Stephanie Castellano, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Drax Hall, Phillips says, should become a museum and agricultural school.
    Time, 6 July 2023
  • Many Japanese people and onlookers from around the world were sure that the agricultural land of Fukushima prefecture would be out of use for decades.
    Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024
  • In a country that's lost 25 percent of its agricultural land over the past 25 years, the pilgrimage is an invitation to tread more lightly on the island’s soil.
    Elissaveta M. Brandon, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2022
  • While many of her agricultural neighbors grow food, her mission is disposing of it in a way that is better for the environment.
    Ashley Miznazi, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The city also needs to maintain healthy beaches and a viable agricultural sector.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The vision is rooted in Michigan's rich agricultural history, where crops like rye have long played a vital role.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Also, California finding itself at the epicenter of a nationwide bird flu outbreak stresses the vulnerability of the food supply chain, raising questions about the state's readiness to handle agricultural crises.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025

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