How to Use farmland in a Sentence

farmland

noun
  • Part of the farmland is in Hugo; the rest is in May Township.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 30 July 2024
  • About 6,500 acres of farmland would need to go through this test.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The area, which is private and set back from the road, was farmland at one time.
    — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Some of the gravesites were hidden away on the farmland of Bosnian Serbs.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The town has farmland roots, known as the ‘hay-shipping capital of the world’ back in the 1920s.
    — Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Not to mention that the value of farmland just went up and up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • The family owned about 400 acres of farmland around the bogs.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2022
  • At the edge of the village lie acres and acres of farmland tilled into rich black earth.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • My mentee Hannah and I stood on the 6.5 acres of farmland on the southwest edge of campus.
    — Karla Salinas, oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • The route also has views of wetlands, prairies, and farmland.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2022
  • But Ukraine, where about 8% of farmland is out of action because of the war, is already in a bind.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The manor house is located at the top of a hill with sweeping views of the forested farmland.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, the area was fields and farmland, not the tony neighborhood where palm trees and sprawling villas flank the streets.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Next, with 17 mentions, were concerns about the loss of farmland.
    — Dan Gearino, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Still, Ben Shabat wants to take the winding roads through the farmland, to stay on the right side of the court order that bans him from some parts of the area.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The five-acre lot features farmland, a barn, a chicken coop and a small greenhouse.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Melissa McGill owns farmland in the area where drilling could be allowed.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The most expensive land in the county was farmland, which sold for as much as $70 per acre.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The plant will be built on a sprawling swath of farmland and pine forest about an hour’s drive east of Atlanta.
    — Andy Peters, ajc, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Without those crops, Del Bosque was not able to hire about 100 people to work on his farmland.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 4 June 2022
  • Thousands of acres of farmland and crops have been ruined in the region of Palamas.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The property spans 88 acres and is filled with rolling hills, walking trails, fields, and farmland.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Russian pullback from the expanse of farmland on the western bank of the Dnieper River comes as a pivot point in the war.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Or the prairie’s the rare communal space, and the farmland is capitalism.
    — In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023
  • And for the first time since 2020, more farmers expect farmland values to go down rather than up.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, the site was still being used as farmland, and the artifacts came to the surface during ploughing.
    — Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the years since, the farmland over the Ogallala once again flourished as farmers drew from the aquifer to irrigate their fields.
    — Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Over the years, Ormond Beach has been chopped up for farmland and industry.
    — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Blue Heron comprises 12 acres, about half of which is farmland, in the northern Yolo County town of Rumsey.
    — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In fact, in the United States, arable farmland has actually been in downtrend for several years.
    — Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

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