Cropland in a sentence

About 305 acres of well-maintained cropland in Rooks County was sold at auction Dec. 7. The land, east of Plainville, Kan., was sold in two tracts.

For each percent of OM lost on an acre of cropland, 11,600 lbs. of carbon are liberated into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Kansas land values, especially for highly desirable cropland or land with improvements, are still strong.

Neonicotinoids from three major producers affect about 75% of all endangered species, the EPA recently found, and the UN cropland is now about 50 times more toxic than just a quarter of a century ago, contributing to an “insect apocalypse”.

Villagers say they lost cropland where they used to grow food, along with sacred forest groves where they carried out traditional rituals.

Because animal agriculture tends to require both land for grazing and cropland to grow inputs for animal feed, livestock also uses a disproportionate amount of the Earth’s agricultural land — about 80 percent.

Mitloehner said cropland, or arable land, makes up one-third of all agricultural land.

Provincially, cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 29 per cent adequate, 53 per cent short and 18 per cent very short.

The initial purchase will have FrontRunner acquire nature-based carbon credits at $20 per tonne from Carbon RX’s Canadian Prairies Cropland Project.

While the research did not show that prairie strips affected yields in adjacent cropland, tests found that the strips boosted the health and fertility of the soil where they were sown.

About $1 million in the Prairie Pothole counties in north-central Iowa will seed conservation cover and other wildlife habitat on water-saturated portions of cropland fields.

Outside South Africa, the continent’s most developed economy, around 80% of African cropland is still cultivated by hand.

Cropland topsoil moisture is rated 78 per cent short or very short and 22 per cent adequate.

Del Monte contracted with dozens of area farmers who grew sweet corn and peas on some 22,000 acres of local cropland.

In one sale, six quarters of irrigated cropland were sold for Circle 8 Land Inc. The first five tracts brought $525 acres each, while the sixth was bid in at $1,000 per acre.

Most of the fires are agricultural, either smallholders burning stubble after harvest, or farmers clearing forest for cropland.

Producers enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs must protect all cropland and noncropland acres on the farm from wind and water erosion and noxious weeds.

This amount of wasted food correlates with waste in other areas: Around 21% of all water used in the U.S. and 18% of cropland is dedicated to food that will never get eaten, exercising a significant strain on already stressed resources.

Today, areas being converted into cropland in Brazil are more likely to be pasture land — forest that was cleared years ago and that is now used to graze cattle.

Concentrated animal feeding operations want cropland adjacent to their dairy operations to have fewer costs for trucking the manure and reduced risks of accidents, said Badtke.