Sentences with phrase «acre under production»

Armed with information about rainfall, temperature and soil conditions, the startup created comprehensive maps of conditions in the fields — the type of intel farmers once had to gather by traversing every acre under production, manually noting any changes they observed.

Not exact matches

As of December 2009, there were 27,610 Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farms around the world with 305,383 ha (754,618 acres) of land under certification (not all in production... this represents all the land on certified farms).

In the United States, approximately 5,500 acres is under cultivation, with Texas the leading state for jalapeño production, followed by New Mexico.

Therefore, taking his yield assumptions at face value, 1,000 acres of land planted in Miscanthus giganteus over the course of a year could produce the energy equivalent of under 3 minutes of U.S. oil production.

Yet U.S. food production over the same time has also risen by robust percentages even as the number of acres under cultivation has been steadily falling for decades.»

The 10 - page report explains that beef production is basically a terrible way to use land — and trading in beef for beans would free up 42 percent of U.S. cropland currently under cultivation, «a total of 1.65 million square kilometers or more than 400 million square acres, which is approximately 1.6 times the size of the state of California.»

Under this alternative, the BLM proposes categories of lands to be excluded from utility - scale solar energy development and identifies approximately 285,000 acres in specific locations well suited for utility - scale production of solar energy (i.e., SEZs) where the BLM would prioritize development.