plough through something

Examples of ploughing

ploughing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The high frequency of ploughing had a considerable impact on the fertility of the land and on yields in general.
They needed resettlement in advance of the ploughing season.
No ploughing or sowing is possible there, because the air and the earth are burnt.
Losses of nitrate-nitrogen in water draining from under autumn-sown crops established by direct drilling or mouldboard ploughing.
It is therefore unlikely that the occupation phases were separated by periods of ploughing and cultivation.
This means that a male labourer had to work 19 days to repay the costs relating to the ploughing of one hectare.
While the use of animal power for ploughing may be noted, the hiring out of donkeys or ox carts for general transport is not.
Indeed, some, such as depth of ploughing, may require large plots to be meaningful.
Three to four ploughings, including one harrowing, is practised for wheat.
Technical constraints include insucient farm size, lack of a medic phase in every year, deep ploughing, overgrazing and uncontrolled grazing.
The trials were sown within 1 day of ploughing.
In addition, tractor ploughing is more difficult during the dry season, when the soils are quite dry.
The same occurred in the case of ploughing and harvesting.
In the following years, there was no ploughing of the garlic plots.
This may be a harvest, but it is also a ploughing and a sowing, which will yield its own crop in due time.
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