James Howard Kunstler

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.

American Author

My grandpa was a big cowboy in his values and the way he lived his life. For our family, the ranch represented our family time when we got to drive down through all that desert farmland and Grandpa would wake us up at 5 A.M. to feed the horses if we wanted to earn the right to ride them later. I always had so much fun.

American Musician

Sara Gideon

Maine is the best place in the country to live and to raise our family. And it's because of our people and our approach to life. No fuss - no frills - just the stuff that really counts. The beauty around us. Our connection to our mountains and lakes and ocean and farmland.

American Politician

Maria Cornejo

My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.

American Designer

Guilherme Leal

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

Brazilian Businessman

George Monbiot

Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It could be crucial to ending world hunger.

British Writer

James Balog

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

American Photographer

Ed Rendell

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Charlie Puth

A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.

Stephen Sprouse

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

Designer

Use 'farmland' to describe large areas where crops are grown or animals are raised.

Usage Context

'Farmland' can evoke images of rural life, tradition, and agriculture's significance in a country's economy and culture.

Cultural Importance

When talking about 'farmland,' consider specifying the type, like irrigated, arable, or pasture land, based on the use.

Types of Farmland

 So when farmers become more productive, they earn more food, and they don't just help themselves, but they help to feed healthy communities and thriving economies. And when farmers become more productive, they reduce environmental pressure. We only have two ways we can feed the we can either make our existing farmland a lot more productive,

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 every time i come to hoover dam i'm struck by how important this place is in the growth of the western united states it's the water supply for 40 million people 5 million acres of farmland the lettuce you eat all winter the alfalfa that feeds the cows that make your burgers and your pizza cheese

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 which is not a good assumption. We could farm more land, but the problem is the remaining lands are in sensitive areas. They have a lot of biodiversity, a lot of carbon, things we want to protect. So we could grow more food by expanding farmland, but we'd better not,

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 Set aside farmland. We need a beautiful diversity of flowers that blooms over the entire growing season, from spring to fall. We need roadsides seeded in flowers for our bees, but also for migrating butterflies and birds and other wildlife.

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 farm but their house got destroyed during the war so they now have to rent another home war has quickly weakened the agricultural economy and left much of the farmland destroyed or unable to be cultivated during my previous visit

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 into one of those but in the long term we will have to produce food sustainably and government schemes are now encouraging farmers to restore intensively farmed land for wildlife farmland that encourages butterflies is

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 that make agriculture possible in the first place. Instead, the next agricultural revolution will have to increase the output of our existing farmland for the long term while protecting biodiversity, conserving water

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 we've seen how managing woodland and farmland for butterflies can preserve the countryside we love and also how butterflies can inspire the next generation to protect it but if you

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 we will have to produce foods sustainably and government schemes are now encouraging farmers to restore intensively farmed land for wildlife farmland that encourages butterflies as

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 where farmland is replacing forest wildlife finds new ways to flourish