Sentence examples for plow under from inspiring English sources

By combining Roundup and Roundup Ready crops, farmers did not have to plow under the weeds to control them.

And a farmer in Maine is asking the president-elect to plow under an acre of White House lawn for an organic vegetable garden.

Rand Beers, the State Department's top anti-narcotics official, said the United States was studying ways to persuade opium farmers in Afghanistan to plow under their crops.

AFGHANISTAN -- More than 10,000 Afghan refugees began returning from Pakistan after Afghan poppy farmers ended violent protests against a government program to plow under their fields.

A fingerling potato farmer in central New York might plow under 130,000 pounds of his crop annually; instead, those potatoes could be used to make vodka that sells for $25 to $35 a bottle.

One of the boldest and most bitterly opposed programs of the New Deal was one to reduce agricultural oversupply by paying farmers to kill animals and plow under crops.

RAYMOND MEEKS For a show titled "Topsoil," Meeks photographed freshly turned earth from an angle so low that he might have been crawling on the ground among the stones and plowed-under corn.

Biodiversity, in this context, refers to the cultivation and plowing-under of grasses or other ground cover to improve field fertility.

Orchards have been plowed under for corn.

Up in the Panhandle, farmers are plowing under dying wheat.

So they get buried, plowed under by a tractor.