cropland

Example Sentences

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For that much money, one could have bought all U.S. cropland and 16 Exxon Mobils with $1 trillion in change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Counties in Pennsylvania that contain or sit close to cultivated cropland show notably higher melanoma rates than other parts of the state, according to new research led by scientists at Penn State.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

The UN estimates 92% of housing units have been damaged or destroyed, 91% of schools will require full reconstruction or major rehabilitation, and 86% of cropland is damaged.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

He said legislation and federal funds would be needed to compensate agricultural landowners who agree to take cropland out of production.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

Wari techniques had reclaimed more than a million acres of cropland from mountainsides that almost anywhere else would have been regarded as impossibly dry, steep, and cold.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann