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Definition of conacre in English: conacrenoun ˈkɒneɪkə mass noun(in Ireland) the letting by a tenant of small portions of land prepared for crops or grazing. Example sentencesExamples - The most common change is new land being rented or existing conacre agreements ending.
- In addition, conacre or rented land that is no longer being farmed must be removed from the REPS plan.
- The trade's effort to set a price of 82.50 per tonne for green barley will force many cereal growers out of business as up to 40% of the land being farmed is conacre.
- Farmers had a cheap and abundant workforce, based on conacre, a form of bonded labour in return for small plots of potato land.
- An annually changing proportion of pasture and arable land is leased out each year, usually for an eleven-month period, in a traditional system known as conacre.
- In the case of conacre there is no requirement to take soil samples provided the planner specifies P limits at or below the target Index level.
- Mr Parlon said many of these farmers opt to rent their land through the short-term eleven-month conacre system.
- A national survey of letting prices last week showed a big demand for grazing compared to tillage conacre.
- When costs such as bank interest rates and conacre are taken into account, many of these farmers will be left in the red with the banks.
- On occasions he uses conacre to fulfil the requirements of the beet contract.
Origin Early 19th century: from corn1 + acre. |