arable

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As spring weather finally comes to Wiltshire's arable fields, farmers are getting busy preparing to plant.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Just four percent of arable land is farmed in Congo-Brazzaville, which is largely covered in forest.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Irma was one of Chávez’s direct beneficiaries; she received a parcel of arable land which she cultivated with her brother.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

Lucy Manthorpe runs a 400-acre organic arable farm in Suffolk and says she was losing over £10,000 worth of crops a year to deer damage on three fields.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025

Competition for grazing land among tribes of herdsmen or for arable soil among farming communities?

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson