How to Use farming in a Sentence

farming

noun
  • Divers searched the water near the launch in Lisbon, and a farming business in the same town.
    David Sharp, Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer and Michelle R. Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The profits will to help the fight against fish farming in Iceland.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The city had a well, which was infected with E. coli due to hog farming.
    Grace Noble, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Carver saw how farming practices in the South had destroyed the soil.
    Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • What does climate change mean for the future of US farming?
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The strike killed two in the Polish farming village of Przewodow.
    Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There’s less farming land available, and a few changes to initial quests.
    Nena Farrell, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Still, in the U.S., seaweed farming is far from mainstream.
    Bylucy Sherriff, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The change was part of a plan to promote small-scale cannabis farming, and officials have since added a few caveats.
    Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • His grandfather’s own use of the app has added other facets of his life, like farming, to his feed.
    Lavender Au, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • For those looking to delve into farming, then Farmer Cee’s got a few tips.
    Felice León, Essence, 22 June 2023
  • But of the 12 farmers, only one over the past 40 years has switched to organic farming.
    Koba Ryckewaert, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Like the one about visiting a small farming village and winning the award for Best in Beard.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But today 93% of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming.
    Time, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There's a reason Stardew is the title against which so many cozy and farming sim games are compared.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • The farm plans to halt all farming and selling for the rest of the year, and soil will be tested before next year, Stutzman told the station.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And the Indigenous farming practices that might heal the earth are being squeezed out.
    Astra Lincoln, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Allowing space for the lake wouldn’t mean ending farming in the area, Sisco said.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • The scent of flowering grapevines and freshly turned soil filters through the air in a part of Cochise County where farming is a way of life for many.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Immokalee is a southwest Florida farming town in the heart of the state's tomato-growing area.
    Mike Schneider, ajc, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Immokalee is a southwest Florida farming town in the heart of the state’s tomato-growing area.
    Mike Schneider, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Many years ago, some of the farming practices for raising tilapia led people to avoid it, and the industry has since made changes.
    Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2022
  • So farming is one of the only things a private citizen can do.
    Photographs & Text By Elliot Ross For Time, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the population has started to do some farming or to live in villages.
    Diana Kwon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Porter came of age during the farming crisis of the 1980s; neighbors and friends lost their homes and livelihoods as the price of farmland plummeted.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • One area of Sifnos still devoted to farming is a small region on the northwest coast called Poulati.
    Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Hastler said the new building will be around 4,000 square feet and have an agricultural farming theme.
    Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The missile landed in the Polish farming village of Przewodow near the border with Ukraine.
    Vasilisa Stepanenko, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2022
  • But farming practices can make a difference in how the illness spreads, experts say, even if there are some trade-offs.
    Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • These became two hallmarks of factory farming, enabling farmers to squeeze more meat out of each animal and increase profits.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 1 Mar. 2025

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