plow under

Example Sentences

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With the onset of the coronavirus, many farmers were forced to plow under crops or dump their milk, even as grocery store shelves emptied out and many American families went hungry.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

Large scale corporate operations will deny access to hunters and for certain plow under the grassed waterways and seasonally inundated wetland in favor of maximizing production.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2016

It is cooking with imperfect vegetables that farmers might otherwise plow under.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2015

In 1933, AAA handed out its first big farm subsidy, $162,000,000 in benefit payments: to plow under 10,500,000 acres of cotton, kill 222,149 brood sows, 6,188,717 little pigs.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a good deal better to use a grain, either barley or rye, for the seed is cheap, the growth quick and you can get a good deal of green stuff to plow under.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)