Sentences with phrase «acres out of production»

The proposed project was fleshed out in consultation with farmers and municipal governments during recent extensive overland flooding that took a million acres out of production.

We still are paying farmers to keep more than 34 MILLION acres out of production to support prices.

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In addition to their abundant organic crops, Hill Top Farms also offers a tour of the 30 acre farm which consists of a trip through the horse barn where participants get a up close, hands on education about equine care including feeding and grooming one or more of the nine resident horses, feeding the chickens and petting the goats and a hayride out to the fields where you get to see and taste organic vegetables in production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

(See Weber Thompson and Chris Hardwicke) Yet millions of acres of agricultural land in North America and Britain have been taken out of production, their output replaced with imports from nations with lower labour costs and more sunlight.

With 13 million tonnes (or 14.3 tons) of marc produced annually, that could mean a lot of biofuel without taking acres of land out of production for food.

The Environmental Working Group's report, «Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol production:

If a deal is eventually worked out, the 157 acre plot would only equate to a fraction of the 900 acre facility the company is currently building in Sparks, Nevada, but will function as a smaller production facility with offices for a growing staff of recruited workers from the Valley.