cropland

He said legislation and federal funds would be needed to compensate agricultural landowners who agree to take cropland out of production.

Single-family homes started going up on what had been vast acres of cropland sprouting corn, tomatoes, melons and rice.

In September, UN agencies said 67.6% of cropland had been damaged by shelling, vehicle tracks and other "conflict-related pressures".

Suggesting that organic’s limited use of chemicals is equivalent to that of conventional growers — who apply 280 million pounds of glyphosate alone on nearly 300 million acres of U.S. cropland annually — is a deliberate distortion of the facts.

In the mid-1980s, when he managed cantaloupe fields, federal government pilots would fly small planes over the state’s cropland looking for large crews of workers, he recalled.