farmland

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It specializes in loans for purchasing farmland and cattle.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

They encouraged landowners plant food sources on the edge of crop fields or on farmland which did not yield much produce.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

This leads to dehydration and eventually “desertification”—a phenomenon the film tracks across a quasi-equatorial band of the Earth, where deforestation in pursuit of farmland has had a deleterious effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The Central Valley stretches from Bakersfield to Redding and is home to some of the nation’s most lucrative farmland.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Half of its farmland is devoted to labor-intensive, high-yield, irrigated rice agriculture, facilitated by abundant rivers flowing from the wet mountains onto sloping lowland plains.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond