cropland
Noun
Meaning
cropland (countable and uncountable, plural croplands)
arable land
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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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.
A dairy operation until the mid-1980s, the Wolfgram farm today operates 113 acres of cropland with another 207 acres of vulnerable land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Another weak point was the existence of many fields with open drainage ditches needing regular maintenance; in the mid-1980s, experts estimated that half of the cropland needed improved drainage works.
Agriculture has now converted 1.5 billion hectares of the surface of the earth to cropland.
Excessive fertilization and manure application to cropland, as well as high livestock stocking densities cause nutrient (mainly nitrogen and phosphorus ) runoff and leaching from agricultural land.