adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an arable farm (= a farm where crops are grown )
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Tractors represent the single biggest cost on most arable farms.
an arable field (= one used for growing crops )
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Barley was growing in the arable fields surrounding the castle.
an arable/agricultural crop (= grown on farm land )
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A lot of woodland has been cleared for arable crops.
arable land (= land that crops are grown on )
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Some pastures were converted into arable land.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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Within the arable area the greatest changes have been the increase of cereals and the decline of the one-year clover ley.
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Altogether cereals account for 54 percent. of the total arable area .
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Almost at once a rapid shrinkage of the arable area began.
crop
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Each family is provided with 3.5 ha of land of which 1 ha is used for rain-fed arable crops .
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Modern farming methods, particularly in arable crop fields, were thought to be responsible for the declines.
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Organic manures as nutrient sources-how best to make the most of organic manures and slurry in arable crop rotations.
farm
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The small village centre is surrounded by arable farms .
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Adrian Denham says the soil on his Warwickshire arable farm doesn't vary from one end of the field to the other.
farmer
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The support policy favours big arable farmers .
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Good arable farmers grubbed them up.
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But arable farmers , particularly in East Anglia, have a lot to be positive about.
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Most arable farmers are nothing more than basic commodity producers.
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Perhaps, by not giving us extra cash, Nick Brown has done arable farmers a favour.
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However arable farmers have fewer restraints on when they can inject.
farming
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The Thatcher government has opposed planning controls over agriculture that could have stopped the spread of intensive arable farming .
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These were in contrast to upland permanent pasture, where arable farming could only be undertaken infrequently, in special circumstances.
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It was no accident that a good many towns were sited on the borderline between arable farming and pastoral regions.
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The hedgerows and pasture where the owls hunt their prey are disappearing as farmers create bigger fields for intensive arable farming .
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In the best cereal-growing areas, arable farming may dominate the scene, with animals and grass taking second place.
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In the steepest, wettest areas, stock-rearing takes complete precedence, and little, if any, arable farming is undertaken.
field
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I avoid fields used for livestock, sticking to the arable field edges and woods.
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Of all counties the one most affected by the transformation of the open arable fields was Northamptonshire.
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It lies happily stranded across arable fields , beside deep woods on the edge of Badminton Park.
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In the arable fields the same crops were grown throughout a field and the task of harvesting was undertaken communally.
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Greater agricultural mechanisation has led to considerable modification of this landscape and larger arable fields now occur in the area.
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The conversion of the former arable fields to small enclosed fields of pasture had therefore two visible effects on the landscape.
land
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The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low, brooding barns.
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But cold weather and a scarcity of food on arable land usually brings numbers down with the onset of winter.
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In early times, farmers were expected to grow a quarter acre of flax for one acre of arable land .
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Enclosure Only half the arable land was still open fields in 1700.
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Under the latter system arable land was put under grass for a long period after which it was returned to arable.
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This ignored the fact that many had been created out of poor arable land or even poorer scrub.
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Conflicting views' Of course arable land in some places is going out of cultivation because of erosion and other destructive forces.
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Both meadow and arable land was allocated in this way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accountants Touche Ross estimated that the increase in the price of diesel would add about £1 an acre to arable farming costs.
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Altogether cereals account for 54 percent. of the total arable area.
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Each family is provided with 3.5 ha of land of which 1 ha is used for rain-fed arable crops.
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Enclosure Only half the arable land was still open fields in 1700.
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In consequence, enclosure of arable was now creating more social problems than it could solve.
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Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
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Part of the arable soil still lies fallow.
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The potential economic damage is not restricted to arable farming.