as in farming
the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock
the forest was cut down, and the land given over to agriculture
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More than 76 percent of Canadian exports to the U.S. are intermediate goods, crucial to American manufacturing and agriculture.
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Women play a key role in agriculture today with 36 percent of all U.S. farmers being women and 56 percent of all farms counting women as producers and decision-makers, according to John Deere.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion belonging to the late Idaho potato and agriculture titan J.R.
—David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2025
Both films portray farming as fundamentally a thing of the past, and the conflict between agriculture and climate as one between smallholding farmers and renewables.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Women play a key role in agriculture today with 36 percent of all U.S. farmers being women and 56 percent of all farms counting women as producers and decision-makers, according to John Deere.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
Change may be coming soon to Simplot Hill, the site just off Bogus Basin Road where the mansion belonging to the late Idaho potato and agriculture titan J.R.
—David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2025
Both films portray farming as fundamentally a thing of the past, and the conflict between agriculture and climate as one between smallholding farmers and renewables.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Agriculture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agriculture. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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