How to Use cropland in a Sentence

cropland

noun

• On top of this, about a third of all cropland is used to grow crops to feed livestock.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2019
• Damage to croplands could affect U.S. food prices and farmer finances in the months and years to come.
  — Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Satellite maps make the distance between the fires and cropland clear.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
• As part of its nutrient plan, the state of Iowa wants half of its cropland acres in cover crops.
  — Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020
• Agent Orange was sprayed on more than 5 million acres of forests and croplands.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• Just over 90 percent of cropland in the state still goes without cover crops.
  — Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
• About 9 acres of cropland is expected to be used for clay borrow for the levee lift.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Year-over-year, Kansas has seen the largest increase in cropland value.
  — Jim O'Brien, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• That was in 2016 during a dry year with few storms to wash farm fertilizers from croplands.
  — John Seewer, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• Some 95 percent of the state’s cropland acreage has minimal moisture in the topsoil.
  — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 17 July 2022
• The Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, relies on runoff from cropland to stay full.
  — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• However, this would have to be applied to half the cropland that has the highest phosphorus loss.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2018
• This property also has 15.32 acres of cropland in the NW corner.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 19 May 2017
• The storm damaged thousands of homes, business and vehicles, along with a millions of acres of cropland.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• The problem is that very few farmers volunteer to retire cropland—not when grain prices are high, and not when grain prices are low.
  — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
• Highway 99 races through almond groves and oil fields here, then bends north toward Fresno and the flat croplands of the Central Valley.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• In southern Alberta, drought has scorched pasture grasses and cropland in the past year.
  — Megan Durisin, Jen Skerritt, Michael Hirtzer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• The pollutant makes its way into fish and can destroy cropland.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• In California, years of drought were washed away this spring with so much water that a long-dormant lake re-emerged over a huge stretch of cropland.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Rural havens for wildlife—hedgerows, swamps, meadows, even rock walls—have been removed to expand cropland.
  — Lena Mucha, Environment, 3 Dec. 2020
• As these landscapes bent to humans' will, the birds followed suit, building their nests in hedgerows and eating croplands' insects and seeds.
  — Tim Graham, National Geographic, 1 June 2018
• But at the beginning of that decade, farmers ran out of cropland and began borrowing from the Amazon.
  — Patricia Nogueira-Neidlinger, Foreign Affairs, 29 June 2016
• Such large rivers as the Colorado ran through deep chasms and hostile ground, mostly far from any potential cropland.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• Infrastructure, cropland and tens of thousands of homes are gone.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• The flooding that walloped Bao's farm and 13 million more acres of cropland — about the size of West Virginia — is the worst that that China has experienced in years.
  — Laura He, CNN, 8 Aug. 2020
• Farms and Famine Southern Africa entered the second year of extreme drought, which left cropland barren and helped increase food prices.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2016
• The 10 accounted for a combined 83% of all calories produced on cropland.
  — Jonathan Knutson, Twin Cities, 1 July 2019
• Doubling the amount of acres of cropland that are certified organic.
  — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
• The ranch’s 746 acres of slope and ravine, cropland and pasture have shifted thanks to a combination of drought and technology.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Building on prime cropland No one knows how much cropland nationwide is currently under solar panels or leased for possible future development.
  — P.j. Huffstutter and Christopher Walljasper, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024