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cropland
- Subject Category
- A Farms and Farming Systems
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Definition
- Land used primarily for the production of adapted cultivated and close-growing crops for harvest, alone or in association with sod crops, and open land recently in such uses. In some states land in fruit and nut trees, grapes, etc., is designated orchard land or vineyard land rather than "cropland".
- Definition Source
- Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/215496.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/215496
- Broader Term
- agricultural land
- Narrower Term
- hayland
- Related Term
- common land unit
- cropping sequence
- cropping systems
- land use
- orchards
- vineyards
- Spanish
- tierra de cultivo
- Term Number
- 215496