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Arable land facts for kids

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Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is land capable of being plowed and used to grow crops. In Britain, it was looked at differently from land that could be used as pasture for raising animals but not for farmland.

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  • 040719 172 dorset marnhull2

    Modern mechanised agriculture permits large fields like this one in Dorset, England

  • Chvojnica hills near Unin

    Fields in the region of Záhorie in Western Slovakia

  • Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de La Blanca, Cardejón, España, 2012-09-01, DD 02

    A field of sunflowers in Cardejón, Spain

  • Kerbau Jawa

    Water buffalo ploughing rice fields near Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia

  • Beverley Minster from West Pasture

    A pasture in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England

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