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Recent Examples of agribusiness
Iowa’s agricultural zoning and permitting laws are written by the state legislature and carried out by the state’s Department of Natural Resources, each of which have close ties to Iowa’s powerful agribusiness lobby — as does Iowa’s governor and secretary of agriculture.
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Kenny Torrella, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is known to be friendly to agribusiness and knows that transparency about the harsh realities of infectious disease outbreaks would diminish consumer trust and threaten its prime directive: To expand markets for producers.
—Crystal Heath and Gene Baur, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Another one that lost ground was agribusiness giant Cargill.
—Andrea Murphy, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Not even farmers, when agribusiness destroyed their livelihoods in the 1950s, degraded themselves by lamenting unharvested ears of content.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
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Kenny Torrella, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is known to be friendly to agribusiness and knows that transparency about the harsh realities of infectious disease outbreaks would diminish consumer trust and threaten its prime directive: To expand markets for producers.
—Crystal Heath and Gene Baur, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Another one that lost ground was agribusiness giant Cargill.
—Andrea Murphy, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Not even farmers, when agribusiness destroyed their livelihoods in the 1950s, degraded themselves by lamenting unharvested ears of content.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agribusiness
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The company completed its acquisition of West Central Ag Services on January 2, 2025, which offers grain and agronomy services in Minnesota.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
8 Jan. 2025
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Image Educated in agronomy, Mr. Mondlane has a diverse résumé.—
Tavares Cebola,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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IoT sensors in farming can monitor soil health, enabling precision agriculture and increasing crop yields.—
Sudhanshu Duggal,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Since opening in 2010, this museum has showcased the most defining aspects of Cajun life, from agriculture and mining to art and music.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2025
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In an effort to permit hemp cultivation while prohibiting production of a psychoactive plant, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 defined hemp as all parts of the cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent concentration of delta-9 THC by dry weight.—
Katharine Neill Harris,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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After a military coup in 1961, the new authoritarian leadership tied its economic program to the cultivation of a citizenry that was smaller and better educated.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Tim Johnson is senior director of horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2025
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Markis Hill is a horticulture agent with Kansas State University Research and Extension.—
Markis Hill,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2025
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From the end of World War II to 1973, U.S. business productivity (outside of farming) grew at a brisk annual rate of 2.8 percent.—
Matthew J. Slaughter,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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By contrast, insect farming has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% when compared to conventional livestock farming methods.—
Oyku Ilgar,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Featuring plant, craft and food vendors, expert speakers on all things gardening and kids’ activities.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2025
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On Fridays, the campus participates in Everybody Grows, which gives students a chance to try out activities like gardening, yoga and a science lab.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Feb. 2025
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Since then, the group has implemented land restoration, reforestation and agroecology projects for approximately 800 Indigenous communities in Chad and Niger.—
Eduardo Garcia,
Forbes,
19 Sep. 2024
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In the United States, some nonprofits such as the Traditional Native American Farmers Association have sought to promote agroecology.—
Cameron Pugh,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Mar. 2024
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Aside from that, the tractor uses the same second-generation technology stack as its tractors for field tillage.—
Andrew J. Hawkins,
The Verge,
6 Jan. 2025
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John Deere’s first-generation tractors were designed specifically for the slowest and easiest works, which is fall tillage with a chisel file.—
Andrew J. Hawkins,
The Verge,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Agribusiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agribusiness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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