How to Use agriculture in a Sentence

agriculture

noun

• They cleared the land to use it for agriculture.
• Those industries could include ethanol, retail, and agriculture.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• But pressure on agriculture is increasing as climate change unleashes more intense and longer-lasting droughts, as well as heat waves that can harm crop yields.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• Could Utah put that water to better use elsewhere without leaving agriculture producers high and dry?
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• The fruit is one of the country’s major agriculture exports, and its growers believed the dispute was to blame for their economic losses.
  — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• This farm has about 240 acres that can continue to be used for agriculture or unrestricted development.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2022
• On the first day of the conference, two charter buses of farmers, agriculture students, advocates and government officials toured three farms.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• In Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, owned by the Dutch, slave huts were built along the coast, on land not suitable for agriculture and easily damaged by storms.
  — Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
• An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in both wild birds and backyard flocks has killed thousands of birds throughout the state, Oregon wildlife and agriculture officials say.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 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
• The 8th Congressional District is a national leader in energy, agriculture, and transportation.
  — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024