How to Use cropland in a Sentence

cropland

noun
  • On top of this, about a third of all cropland is used to grow crops to feed livestock.
    — CBS News, 7 July 2019
  • Some 24 million hectares of croplands had been left to their own devices.
    — Bydan Charles, science.org, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Satellite maps make the distance between the fires and cropland clear.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Agent Orange was sprayed on more than 5 million acres of forests and croplands.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • Active cropland is the most common land use in the watershed.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Just over 90 percent of cropland in the state still goes without cover crops.
    — Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • The pollutant makes its way into fish and can destroy cropland.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As part of its nutrient plan, the state of Iowa wants half of its cropland acres in cover crops.
    — Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The rest of the property is a mix cropland and woods, with around 93 tillable acres.
    — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • About 9 acres of cropland is expected to be used for clay borrow for the levee lift.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Year-over-year, Kansas has seen the largest increase in cropland value.
    — Jim O'Brien, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Rural havens for wildlife—hedgerows, swamps, meadows, even rock walls—have been removed to expand cropland.
    — Lena Mucha, Environment, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Infrastructure, cropland and tens of thousands of homes are gone.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • It’s surrounded by a dry valley, scrub, tallgrass, croplands and dirt.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The woodlands are hilly, with numerous ditches and draws that run into croplands.
    — Jeffrey A. Brunk, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Doubling the amount of acres of cropland that are certified organic.
    — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 May 2022
  • The problem is that very few farmers volunteer to retire cropland—not when grain prices are high, and not when grain prices are low.
    — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
  • However, this would have to be applied to half the cropland that has the highest phosphorus loss.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The storm damaged thousands of homes, business and vehicles, along with a millions of acres of cropland.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In southern Alberta, drought has scorched pasture grasses and cropland in the past year.
    — Megan Durisin, Jen Skerritt, Michael Hirtzer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • Such large rivers as the Colorado ran through deep chasms and hostile ground, mostly far from any potential cropland.
    — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • That was in 2016 during a dry year with few storms to wash farm fertilizers from croplands.
    — John Seewer, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • This shift has improved soil health, cut cropland erosion and advanced the ability of soil to act as a crucial carbon sink.
    — Magi Richani, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Some 95 percent of the state’s cropland acreage has minimal moisture in the topsoil.
    — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 17 July 2022
  • As these landscapes bent to humans' will, the birds followed suit, building their nests in hedgerows and eating croplands' insects and seeds.
    — Tim Graham, National Geographic, 1 June 2018
  • But Cozzi said the models in the report don’t require converting forests into cropland.
    — NBC News, 18 May 2021
  • But Cozzi said the models in the report don't require converting forests into cropland.
    — Frank Jordans, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • And any wetlands that are on cropland that's been sold for development will no longer be protected if that land has been farmed at any time in the last five years.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2021
  • In California, years of drought were washed away this spring with so much water that a long-dormant lake re-emerged over a huge stretch of cropland.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But at the beginning of that decade, farmers ran out of cropland and began borrowing from the Amazon.
    — Patricia Nogueira-Neidlinger, Foreign Affairs, 29 June 2016

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