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Farm land

From farm + land.

farmland (usually uncountable, plural farmlands)

  1. Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
    • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:
      From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
    • 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).
    • 2023 September 24, Michael D. Smith, “Opinion: Biden’s American Climate Corps could be the lasting legacy of this generation”, in CNN‎[2]:
      The CCC would restore the soil health of farmlands in the Heartland and power the Colorado River by constructing the Hoover Dam. Their work transformed the very landscape of America.

land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production

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