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tillage

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Definition of tillage

as in cultivation

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Recent Examples of tillage Orders for Deere’s autonomous tillage machine are opening soon, and the same kind of tech is going into other products, too. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 4 Feb. 2026 Better practices such as cover crops, reduced or no tillage to protect the soil and on-farm installations to reduce runoff have substantially increased in recent years. — ABC News, 4 June 2026 Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026 Additionally, 57 percent of acreage uses no-till or conservation tillage, minimizing soil disturbance to reduce erosion, improve water infiltration and lower fuel use. — Sj Studio, Footwear News, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tillage

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The crash site was forest in 1944, but it was later excavated for rice cultivation, Fong told Jackson.

— Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
The ruling also confirmed that the exemption for propagation material was not intended to create a broad commercial market, but it was supposed to be limited to private cultivation or within the framework of cultivation associations.

— Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of cultivation

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Local agriculture can benefit from precision farming, predictive analytics, and resource optimization that increase productivity while lowering costs.

— Britney Porter, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Yet despite those struggles, South Africa, one of Africa’s leading industrial economies, remains a destination for migrants willing to take low-paying jobs in domestic work, security and agriculture.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 29 June 2026

Definition of agriculture

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Local agriculture can benefit from precision farming, predictive analytics, and resource optimization that increase productivity while lowering costs.

— Britney Porter, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Regenerative agriculture is a sustainable farming practice focused on soil health.

— Lizzie Kane June 29, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of farming

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The Huntington hosts a rice-planting day, offering hands-on learning about Japanese culture and farming techniques with their horticulture curator of Asian gardens.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Beth Bolles is a horticulture agent with the University of Florida IFAS Extension Escambia County.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026

Definition of horticulture

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Emma Daugherty, gardening expert and director of marketing for Bath Center Garden and Nursery in Colorado, suggests planting native nut trees and fruit trees to attract a variety of birds.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 5 July 2026
A lot of gardening success depends on what is happening below the surface.

— Lauren David, Southern Living, 5 July 2026

Definition of gardening

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Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 May 2026
Every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers are drawn to America by the promise of steady, seasonal farmwork through the H-2A program.

— Max Blau, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of farmwork

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From the agronomy side, that progression was part of the design.

— Noah Gulley, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
Planting a tree or tending to a garden is a simple way for individuals to contribute to the climate fight, Chris Cerveny, a soil science and agronomy expert and co-founder of Just Good Soil, an agricultural company that focuses on regenerative gardening practices, told ABC News.

— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026

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