Farmland

Definitions: Farmland

Farmland

Noun

1. A rural area where farming is practiced.

Date "farmland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Agriculture	Land used for agricultural purposes. The federal government recognizes prime farmland and unique farmland as the most important categories. According to USDA, the United States has had roughly 1 billion acres of farmland. Farmland consists of cropland, pastureland, and grazing land. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Farmland

Synonym: farming area (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
References	Farmland Industries, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Process of forest soil macrofauna formation after afforestation of farmland (reference) Breadbasket or Dust Bowl? the Future of Illinois Farmland (reference) Eat Your Way Across the U.S.a: 500 Diners, Farmland Buffets, Lobster Shacks, Pie Palaces, and Other All-American Eateries (reference) Seventy years around Ryton Junction in the Strzelecki Ranges : 1904 virgin forest, 1920-30 farmland, 1977 replanted forest (reference) From Farmland to Freeways: A History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Farmland (reference) Farmland Market (reference) Farmland News (reference) Farmland Preservation Report (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Dan Cotter, DC, and crop consultant review plants on a grass back terrace in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. The farmland is located in the Upper Mississippi Watershed.Credit: Bob Nichols.		Grass back terrace in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. The farmland is located in the Upper Mississippi Watershed.Credit: Bob Nichols.
	Hugh Hammond Bennett, first Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, inspects wind eroded farmland near Ottawa Co., Michigan.Credit: O. E. Fink.		Prime farmland in Iowa.Credit: Lynn Betts.
	Marion County farmer loads manure from storage pit to a honey wagon which will be used to spread the manure on farmland.Credit: Lynn Betts.		New homes appear in woodlands on farmland in Dallas County, Iowa, as suburbs grow on the north and west sides of Des Moines.Credit: Lynn Betts.
	An aerial viwn of farmland in Coon Valley, Wisconsin.Credit: Erwin C. Cole.		Encroachment on farmland in Fulton County, OH.Credit: USDA.
	Scenic view of farmland with dairy cattle grazing.Credit: USDA.		Old school house located in rangeland and farmland.Credit: Ron Halvorson.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		China needs to boost agricultural productivity to feed its large and growing population using the limited farmland available. (references)
		Although the land irrigated with modern technologies has more than doubled since 1991, less than five percent of farmland is currently under irrigation. (references)
		Industry reports also say that China will focus its farming mechanization on low and medium-yield farmland improvement, barren mountain and wasteland reclamation and development of grain, cotton, oil and farming produce and sideline product protection. (references)
Civil Liberties	India	Those arrested were concerned about the status of farmland and homes in the village resulting from the planned government construction of an expressway between the two cities. (references)
Economic History	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	Much farmland was damaged, and the economy deteriorated. (references)
	Philippines	Arable farmland comprises an estimated 26% of the total land area. (references)
Human Rights	Zimbabwe	The Commercial Farmers Union disputes that figure, contending that members of the white minority own only 20 percent of the country's best farmland, while the Government owns most of the remainder. (references)
Minorities	Mauritania	A number of accounts indicate that redistribution of southern farmland to Moors since the acceleration of desertification in the 1970's has contributed to tensions between Moors and southern-based ethnic groups. (references)
Political Economy	HUNGARY	Only Hungarian citizens may own farmland. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Seven thousand acres of farmland and open space are lost every day.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Farmland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.81% of the time. "Farmland" is used about 337 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.81%	333	15,728
Noun (proper)	1.19%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	337	N/A

Country	Name
USA	Farmland Industries, Inc.
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1. Farmland, IN (town, FIPS 22792)
Location: 40.18896 N, 85.12713 W
Population (1990): 1412 (608 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 47340
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Farmland

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
farmland	234	dog farmland hot	4
davis farmland	61	farmland indiana sale	4
farmland industry	59	farmland meat	4
farmland for sale	46	farmland food inc	4
american farmland trust	28	farmland memory plate	4
farmland food	27	farmland georgia	3
farmland insurance	18	farmland feed lake land o	3
credit farmland union	15	farmland florida sale	3
farmland indiana	14	farmland iowa sale	3
florida farmland	9	farmland photo	3
farmland preservation	8	davis farmland ma sterling	3
farmland industry inc	8	bmccorp.net farmland	3
farmland picture	8	dakota farmland north sale	3
beef farmland national	8	farmland milk	3
farmland illinois sale	6	farmland sell	3
canada farmland sale	5	amish farmland	3
farmland montana sale	5	farmland ohio sale	2
farmland kansas sale	4	farmland sale texas	2
kentucky farmland for sale	4	farmland sale wisconsin	2
farmland bankruptcy	4	iowa farmland	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Farmland

Language		Translations for "farmland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		農�"� (cultivated land), �"�地 (cropland, field), 农�"�. (various references)

Danish		frilægning af jord til ikke-landbrugsmæssige formål (reallocation of farmland made available for non-agricultural purposes), samlet jordtilliggende (farm size, total farm area, total farm surface, total farmland), samlet jordareal (farm size, total farm area, total farm surface, total farmland). (various references)

Dutch		bouwland (arable area, arable land, arable land area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled area, tilled lands). (various references)

Esperanto		kulturkampo. (various references)

French		surface totale d'exploitation (farm size, total farm area, total farm surface, total farmland), jachère sociale (abandoned farmland, social fallow), affectation des terres libérées � des fins non-agricoles (reallocation of farmland made available for non-agricultural purposes). (various references)

Frisian		boulân, bou (agriculture, construction, farming, tillage). (various references)

German		ackerland (arable farm Land, arable land, arable land area, arable lands, cropped land, cultivated area, cultivated land, infield, plough lands, plowland, tilled lands). (various references)

Greek		συνολική επιφάνεια γεωργικής εκμετάλλευσης (farm size, total farm area, total farm surface, total farmland). (various references)

Hungarian		gazdaság (economy, estate, farm, property, ranch). (various references)

Indonesian		tanah pertanian. (various references)

Italian		terre incolte (abandoned farmland, social fallow), superficie aziendale complessiva (farm size, total farm area, total farm surface, total farmland), destinazione a scopi non agricoli delle terre rese disponibili (reallocation of farmland made available for non-agricultural purposes), campi abbandonati (abandoned farmland, social fallow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		畑地 , �"�地 (rice field or paddy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		で�"じ (electromagnetic, rice field or paddy), で�"ち (battery, rice field or paddy), はたち (20 years old, 20th year). (various references)

Korean		경작지 (tillage). (various references)

Pig Latin		armlandfay

Portuguese		terra (clay, clod, country, earth, earthenware, Glebe, globe-flower, ground, homeless, land, landed property, part, soil). (various references)

Russian		пахотная земля (infield, ploughland, plough-land). (various references)

Scottish		fearann (estate, land). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obrađena zemlja. (various references)

Spanish		superficie total de la explotación (farm size, total farm area, total farm surface, total farmland). (various references)

Thai		ที่�"ินเพาะปลูก. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Farmland

Derivations
	Words beginning with "farmland": farmlands. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Farmland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farmans, Ferland, Fernald, fernland, Fursland. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Farmland"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "farmland" (pronounced fÄ"rmla'nd)
5	-m l a' n d	dreamland, homeland.
4	-l a' n d	Badland, cropland, fairyland, Fantasyland, Fatherland, flatland, grassland, heartland, hinterland, inland, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, Southland, sunland, Timberland, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland.
3	-a' n d	ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, longhand, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Farmland

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-l-m-n-r"
	-3 letters: adman, aland, alarm, daman, damar, drama, farad, malar.
	-4 letters: afar, alan, alar, alfa, alma, anal, damn, darn, dram, fard, farl, farm, flam, flan, lama, land, lard, maar, mana, marl, nada, nard, rand.
	-5 letters: aal, ala, ama, ana, and, arf, arm, dal, dam, fad, fan, far, lad, lam, lar, mad, man, mar, nam, rad.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-f-l-m-n-r"
	+1 letter: farmlands.
	+5 letters: deformational.
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