Not exact matches
According to Frank Muir, President / CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission, this
acreage planted adjustment has worked very well and the industry expects to sell everything it
grows this season, thus helping keep prices up and revenue
on track for an increase.
We began
growing food in earnest when my first child was born nearly eleven years ago... beginning from scratch
on our newly acquired, small
acreage.
That said I live
on an
acreage and
grow almost all my food myself and what I don't
grow I swap with other permaculturalists.
John van Rooyen, 55, picks oranges for his breakfast and
grows herbs for his dinner
on his
acreage in the Andes.
Dr. Shane Murray was born and raised in Northern California, where he
grew up
on a small
acreage.
Ashley
grew up just south of Okotoks
on an
acreage, and has always had a passion for animals.
She was born in Independence, Missouri and
grew up
on acreage.
If more
acreage was put into corn, it wouldn't necessarily displace other crops, it would be
grown mostly
on farmlands that are not being used.
The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated
acreage; it gathered data
on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are
grown in short rotations
on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.
And that this land will
grow this type of crop, and probably existing
acreage will switch over to it as well, based
on market conditions.