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Recent Examples of farmland
And for the first time since 2020, more farmers expect farmland values to go down rather than up.
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Sean Conlon, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
By statute, to designate an INA, which only stops farmland expansion but does not limit pumping, the water agency director would have to prove that an AMA is not needed.
—Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
With the money, Schultheis said, project partners will continue creating farmland easements, which ensures the land will remain as farmland and won't be developed over.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety square miles of farmland on the eastern reaches of San Francisco Bay.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Sean Conlon, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
By statute, to designate an INA, which only stops farmland expansion but does not limit pumping, the water agency director would have to prove that an AMA is not needed.
—Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
With the money, Schultheis said, project partners will continue creating farmland easements, which ensures the land will remain as farmland and won't be developed over.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety square miles of farmland on the eastern reaches of San Francisco Bay.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farmland
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This type of farming remains an important form of agriculture in many regions, primarily in Africa and parts of Asia, where it is practiced on about 25 million acres, about the same amount of cropland as found in Italy.Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel currently fuels 0.01% of flights worldwide and there’s not enough cropland to fuel the rest.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
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The National Park Service has said that if agricultural operators lose their leases there, all people living on those farms and ranches would have to leave.Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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In real life, the total number of farms and ranches in Montana is down 10.3 percent from 2017, according to U.S. Census Data from 2022.Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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Old Trafford was good for ducks of the farmyard variety.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
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Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo has announced the arrival of five new Guinea hog piglets to the farmyard family, according to a release.Staff report, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2024
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With some help from George, the Native American ranch hand who works for Natty (played by Ben Cardinal), and their mother’s old horse Lightning, the twin girls quickly piece together that the ranch’s financial failings may have more to do with Bart’s meddling than with Natty’s business model.Sara Belcher, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
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The ranches and dairies of the Point Reyes Seashore Ranchers Association intervened in the suit.Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Farmland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farmland. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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