How to Use agribusiness in a Sentence

agribusiness

noun
  • Several large agribusinesses own most of the farms around here.
  • Health care ranked ahead of lawyers, labor, and agribusiness.
    — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
  • In the last six months, the prospects for food, beverage, and agribusiness have started to turn around.
    — Colin Guheen, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • One is a small rural agribusiness union in Castro in Paraná state.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The state favours agribusiness and plantations over small farmers.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Our agribusiness is in a position to prosper.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The rise of agribusiness American egg farms weren't always so big.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
  • These disputes often arise over mining, agribusiness, logging, and dam projects.
    — Author: Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The buyers are huge agribusiness corporations or hedge funds.
    — Edward Ring, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Large agribusinesses can absorb those costs; small family farms often cannot.
    — Kee Hyun Park, The Conversation, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The list included a small agribusiness union and a small timber company, also from the south.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Deals are expected to be signed for direct flights between the two countries and to promote agribusiness.
    — semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Brazil is a global agribusiness powerhouse.
    — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Vadatursky's agribusiness, Nibulon, includes a fleet of ships for sending grain abroad.
    — Susie Blann, ajc, 31 July 2022
  • Vadatursky’s agribusiness, Nibulon, includes a fleet of ships for sending grain abroad.
    — Susie Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022
  • Rwanda is full of would-be food, agribusiness, and technology entrepreneurs.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But in the Philippines, disputes linked to agribusiness led to half of the killings, according to the research.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • Many Ukrainian agribusiness operations have been laid to waste.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Green said students will get the education needed to work on the cutting edge of agribusiness and dairy sciences.
    — Keith Ridler, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Elias echoed the pope’s concern, saying that forests are being clear-cut to make way for large-scale agribusiness, including sugar cane.
    — Lucien Chauvin, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Acts of sabotage and deadly protests against agribusiness and mining companies have erupted in the past.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Breeders also need to go beyond the field to understand the needs of women in agribusiness at every stage of the value chain.
    — Vivian Polar, Scientific American, 25 July 2022
  • Instead, Morales had deepened his commitment to mining, gas, and agribusiness.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • And agribusiness is responding to the widespread supply chain and labor shortage challenges.
    — Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Shunned by the military elite that made him, Prabowo joined his younger brother Hashim’s mining and agribusiness empire.
    — Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
  • While Brazil’s economy is mired in a long slump, agribusiness has remained largely resilient during the crisis.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2017
  • Peter Bohan, a longtime friend, said Obis wrote on topics from agribusiness to energy.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • Conservation groups that oppose the pumps say the new plan largely mirrors the old one, and that the project would hurt the environment to help agribusiness.
    — Emily Wagster Pettus, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • During the last drought, agribusiness was blamed for over-pumping groundwater, causing the land to sink and wells in some poor rural communities to go dry.
    — Brian Melley, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • For investors, the bigger news will be whether his successor tips the scale away from refiners and towards agribusinesses, which could have a big impact on their shares.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 6 July 2018

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