How to Use agriculture in a Sentence

agriculture

noun

• They cleared the land to use it for agriculture.
• Unsuitable for most agriculture, it has largely been left alone even as humans have transformed the rest of the planet.
  — Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• The company grows tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables by sustainable agriculture methods on some of the world’s largest high-tech indoor farms, its website says.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
• Huber Sandoval starts his days at 5:30 a.m., working long days at his agriculture job before reporting to the evening classes.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
• That’s where regenerative agriculture, sometimes called carbon farming, comes in.
  — Jennifer Fergesen, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
• Nelson vowed to work to enforce antitrust laws, revive strategic grain reserves, reform farm subsidies and place a moratorium on agriculture mergers.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
• Great wine is tied to finite pieces of land and to the rhythms of agriculture.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• Mayo has deep roots of her own in food and agriculture.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• The threat to agriculture comes as the Philippines tries to cope with rice shortages.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Ehrlich and the Paddocks were wrong about the future of agriculture.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The problems are much more to agriculture and sea rise.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Apr. 2018
• In the basin as a whole, agriculture uses 80% of the river’s water.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 June 2022
• Some water is used in the city, but much of it goes to supply agriculture.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• What worked for pharma should work for agriculture, too, the CEO says.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 26 June 2020
• But even groups with nothing to do with agriculture kicked in.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• Men and women who had worked in agriculture were now serving in the armed forces.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2020
• That appeals to me as a dairy farmer and woman in agriculture.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2021
• You guys get it … agriculture is the backbone of this nation.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• The rainfall also had a big impact for much of the agriculture industry in the south.
  — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• There’s tons of agriculture in the area, but most restaurants don’t use local stuff.
  — Anna Aguillard, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2016
• Indian agriculture has been in a state of crisis for the past two decades or more.
  — Surinder S. Jodhka, Quartz, 3 June 2021
• The less water that goes toward agriculture, the more that's left over for drinking.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Mar. 2023
• That suggests to me a need to transform our food and agriculture system.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• There were schools, livestock, agriculture, dozens of wives, even more kids.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
• Many of the town’s 8,000 residents work in agriculture.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Farm workers and those working in agriculture are at the highest risk of bird flu.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 May 2024
• How can robots and AI like this help agriculture in the face of climate change pressures?
  — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Dan Tham, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• Though agriculture is a big problem, that doesn’t mean industry doesn’t share in the blame.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2022
• Zoom in: Key to the plan is to review thousands of water concessions, or the permits to extract groundwater for industries like agriculture, breweries, or manufacturing.
  — Marina E. Franco (noticias Telemundo For Axios), Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
• Rice farmers like Lundberg Farms have adopted a regenerative organic agriculture system rather than use traditional rice farming methods.
  — J.j. Johnson, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024