arable
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He now works full-time on the arable side of the farm owned by his father, Nick, who was the family's first international rugby player, and scrum-half for Leicester in the 1980s.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
James Cossins who runs a dairy, beef and arable farm in Tarrant Rawston, near Blandford, Dorset, said prices had doubled for the 200-300 litres of diesel he needed each day to run his tractors.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
We call the deep, folded valleys of West Dorset “coombes,” a topography often too steep for tractors; too awkward to be given over to large-scale arable farming.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Just four percent of arable land is farmed in Congo-Brazzaville, which is largely covered in forest.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
To obtain fuel and construction material and to grow food, they cleared trees and vegetation from the bluffs to the east and planted every inch of arable land.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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