crofters

Definition of croftersnext
plural of crofter, chiefly British

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Noun
  • For budget-minded growers, that translates into a wider harvest window and more food from the same planting.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2026
  • During the pandemic, bean growers were initially saddled with excess inventory as farmers markets and restaurants suddenly closed.
    Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Generations of sharecroppers farmed the land, called the Franklin Farms megasite, until 2006, when the Franklin family sold it to the state of Louisiana, which then hoped to attract an auto plant.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In the north, Louisiana also had sharecroppers and still has cotton fields.
    Christine Ochefu, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • More recently, soybean croppers were angered by the financial support lent to Argentina, which went on to ship large quantities of its own soybeans to China.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In nature, this process typically occurs via fire, whereas cultivators often use acid or physical scarring.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • However, cultivators can't get rid of weeds close to plants without damaging the vegetables.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • When some of these planters defaulted, Jacob repossessed their plantations.
    Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • His dread turned to panic when Hochheiser, 79, was unloaded at Villa Rosa III, a 48-bed assisted living home with peeling paint, burglar bars, barren planters and a history of poor care.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • America has largely been out of tune regarding that refrain, but its greatest defenders of democracy and its tillers for a better world have not.
    Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.
    Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Crofters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofters. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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