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
  • Canada is the eighth-largest exporter of agricultural products and seafood in the world.
    Vipal Monga, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The project would be sited on agricultural land near town.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Since the colonies were agricultural, these leetmen, dealt with so curtly by the law, would make up by far the largest share of the population.
    Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • The deal will enable Ukraine to export 22 million tons of grain and other agricultural products that have been stuck in Black Sea ports due to the war.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • Moreover, a fix for global oil and agricultural shortages depends on an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, Piegza said.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • More than 4,100 miles of roads have been damaged or destroyed, and nearly three million acres of agricultural land have been damaged, OCHA says.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • That study was funded by an agricultural research firm in Hong Kong that did not have a vested interest in the outcome, the study’s lead author said.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Those measures cover not just steel and aluminum products but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods.
    TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Moreno grew up in an agricultural community in California and played sports, like basketball.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 9 Mar. 2025

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