Sentences with phrase «half of an acre»

The owner of an acre of land will use it to maximize revenue by building a skyscraper instead of a one - story convenience store or constructing condos rather than office space.

Vancouver's TimberWest owns hundreds of thousands of acres of forest along the B.C. coast.

The delayed launch of what Monsanto calls a blockbuster product is another setback for the company, which is already battling to keep a new version of a herbicide on the market in the face of complaints that it damaged millions of acres of crops this summer.

The Partnership for Conservation, an advocacy group, argues that current tax incentives have resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of acres conserved.

In four weeks the workers leveled hundreds of acres and moved some 3 million cubic yards of dirt — enough to fill three football stadiums.

It's designed to ensure that, over thousands of acres, not a single row is seeded or fertilized twice and not an inch of land or an ounce of fuel is wasted.

In 2012, western Canadian farmers seeded 21 million of acres of canola, surpassing the acreage for wheat (at 17 million) for the first time.

The premise for allowing Alcoa to raze thousands of acres of the world's only jarrah forest was that the ore mined would be downstream processed here, providing jobs and value - added exports.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has opened millions of acres of public lands for development while pursuing policies of protection in his home state.

But for the past 18 months, the city has leased about 68 of those acres for $ 1 per year based on a promise by a San...

I own 3/4 of an acre in a popular Nashville neighborhood that I plan on further developing in the future.

Ranchers on the Great Plains are recovering from wildfires that scorched hundreds of thousands of acres of cattle country last month.

Darren has amassed an investment portfolio consisting of over 4,000 rental properties across North America, tens of millions of dollars in energy interests and hundreds of acres of land.

The city has hundreds of acres of parkland, and Winsor is home to an annual harvest fair which includes a parade, concerts, and a hot air balloon festival.

Like bitcoin, both those markets have a maximum number of acres that will ever be available.

Those arrays of photo - voltaic modules stretch across thousands of acres in 35 countries — from Thailand and India to Chile and big sunny tracts of desert in the U.S. 4

An Under Armour investor sued company founder Kevin Plank in federal court, accusing him of breaching his fiduciary duty to the company and shareholders and unjustly enriching himself through his Port Covington development, hundreds of acres along the...

Cyclone Hudhud wrecked homes, uprooted trees, tore down power and communication lines, cut off road and rail links, and flooded thousands of acres of farmland in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

They own thousands of acres in Southwest Oklahoma county and each have 30 million dollar mansions.

Still farther north is the Plain of Acre where the modern port of Haifa is located, and beyond Acre lay Phoenicia with its important capital, Tyre.

With Obama's historic victory in November, I began to dream of a new order — of acres of new wind turbines silently generating clean energy, of sleek bullet trains seamlessly linking our great metropolises, and of a modernized tax system under which the rich would finally pay their fair share.

«He worked out a way to translate objects into the number of acres it would take to produce the material for them,» Robin said.

A cigarette flicked out of a car window sets a forest ablaze and thousands of acres of precious timber go up in smoke.

Man lights fire, fire burns millions of acres.

So shaken is he by the fall of Acre that he wonders aloud whether it is true, as the Qur» an says, that the patriarchs and prophets were Muslims.

As I read the five letters on the fall of Acre, what came through most vividly was their plaintiveness.

Riccoldo was deeply affected by the fate of Christians under Muslim rule and the historical import of the fall of Acre in 1291.

Fires in Ventura County and Los Angeles County have destroyed tens of thousand of acres, and everyone from suburbanites to Bel Air mansion dwellers are affected.

The recapture of Acre was the chief result.

All of those acres of corn are annually converted into a thousand different products intended to stimulate our jaded tastebuds.

Quinn then planted about 3/4 of an acre in 1986, as well as converting his chemical farm to organic production.

Our Community Aid Program has restored thousands of acres of rainforest by farming only with shade grown farms, and planted our own coffee on our own organic farms.

The family owns thousands of acres of prime vineyard land in California, as well as wineries and vineyards in Oregon, Australia, Chile, France, Italy, and South Africa.

Of the 300 acres available on FM 290 about 15 miles from Fredericksburg, they have 40 of those acres in habanero cultivation.

The number of acres planted generally remains relatively stable across the United States.

This has left huge swaths of acrid smoke over many thousands of acres of land.

His farm is relatively smaller (700 acres) while conventional farms are thousands of acres.

To this day Sambazon is the ONLY Fair Trade Certified açaí (which is a lot more in depth and different than 1 % For the Planet and many pay to play certifications other brands have), and is the only vertically integrated company on the market, ensuring the highest quality, and premium açaí out there, and has protected millions of acres of Amazon Rainforest to this day, by providing 20,000 family farmers with employment from sustainable harvesting of açaí fruit.

His programs, which include the Ranching For Profit School and Executive Link, have benefited thousands of families and millions of acres.

Unlike regular sandalwood, Santalum paniculatum has distinct volcanic notes that conjure images of island mountainscapes, lapping blue waves, and thousands of acres of thriving, glistening trees.

Glyphosate, the main ingredient used in Roundup Ready, is the most common herbicide in the world, sprayed on many billions of acres of crops each year.

Having grown up in a family grape growing business in Cucamonga in the 1930s and being a part of that business in the 40s 50s, and 60s, John had seen thousands of acres of vineyards succumb to the pressures of housing development, and he was determined that this wouldn't happen in Temecula.

The removal of acres of rainforest threatens the rich biodiversity in these finely balanced ecosystems, along with the habitat of species such as the orangutan.

Finally, the total number of acres planted this year was the same as the total acreage planted in 2004 (328,000 acres).

Hualalai sources its Kona coffees from hundreds of acres of best kona coffee cherries, kona peaberry fresh hualalai -LSB-...]

How an Important Central Coast Vineyard Fought Off the Alamo Fire Two of the current wildfire season's biggest blazes, the Alamo and Whittier fires, have ravaged tens of thousands of acres in Californias Central Coast region, in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, respectively...

Steve Ponzo, Grower Relations Assistant for Constellation Brands, manages around 78 ranches comprising hundreds of acres of vineyards in Lake, Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma.

Hualalai hand picks their Kona Coffee Beans from hundreds of acres across multiple Kona Estates.

Second, the property is on hundreds of acres with 30 miles of trails.

We're creating and improving thousands of acres of pollinator habitat in the U.S., reducing the use of agricultural pesticides and training people in pollinator conservation techniques that can save these unsung heroes of our food chain.»