Cropland

Finally, competition for cropland translates into the loss of Amazonian rainforest, one of our best means of storing carbon on earth, when Amazonian farmers clear it to plant newly valuable energy crops, or food crops that North American farmers have forsaken for energy crops. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bordering areas of private land contain cropland and steep river bluffs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For example, barit or sacate (Leersia hexandra) and bungalon (Panicum stegninum) were described by Loosli et. al (1954) as very palatable and imparting unusual stamina to horses, yet they are more known as cropland weeds. ❋ Unknown (1992)

The images, referred to as cropland data layers, are a useful tool for monitoring crop rotation patterns, land use changes, water resources and carbon emissions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

- An area called the cropland is utilized to grow native crops like tobacco and corn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Land-use change, such as cropland expansion in drylands, may also increase the vulnerability of human-environment systems to climatic fluctuations and thereby trigger land degradation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

AWEP offers financial and technical assistance to help farmers and ranchers carry out water enhancement activities that conserve ground and surface water and improve water quality on agricultural lands such as cropland, pasture, grassland and rangeland. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No, I was thinking more about flattening ancient mountains with high explosives and destroying entire watersheds in order to get at filthy coal so we can have more cheap dam failures, cropland sterilization, lung cancer, emphysema, and childhood asthma. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those prices eventually drop because of the new supply but the end result was the expansion of more cropland into ecosystem carbon sinks because of biofuels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Diverting the use of cropland for biofuels will only compound this problem. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is increased productivity, courtesy of cropland expansion and a series of farming 'revolutions', that has enabled population growth. ❋ Cary Fowler (2011)

When Americans plant more corn, they do so by planting on land that was growing something else, reducing the supply of whatever that crop was, which raises its price, which motivates farmers in other parts of the world to clear new cropland to profit from those higher prices. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Besides major cities, sprawling suburbs, ports, airports, highways, cropland and mile after mile of built-up beachfront neighborhoods are in harm's way. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That flow will flood over the same amount of territory - as much as 93,000 square miles of cropland - but at lower depths, he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the plan possibly would inundate 130,000 acres of now-evacuated farmland in Missouri's agriculture-reliant Mississippi County, causing what Missouri argues would crush that region's economy and environment by rendering that cropland useless under potentially feet of sand and silt. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The action is expected to result in huge losses, inundating nearly 8,000 square kilometers of low-lying swamp and cropland. ❋ Unknown (2011)