Sentences with phrase «much of this acreage»

Much of that acreage is devoted to corn and soybeans.

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Much of the crop is produced along the Rio Grande Valley, with Doña Ana County having the largest acreage.

The tent city covered so much acreage that friends communicated by posting notes on a message board made of eight sheets of plywood.

Surveys of American farmers by the Department of Agriculture show that the use of Bt [pest - resistant] corn aimed at the corn borer, for example, hasn't done much to reduce the application of pesticides to corn, because the vast majority of corn acreage isn't treated with pesticide to control that pest.

Florida's citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of their acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state's $ 10.7 billion citrus industry, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences survey shows.

The ancestors of the modern maize planted today across large acreages in the U.S. and worldwide had much smaller endosperms.

Corn acreage, and to a lesser degree soybean acreage, has increased across much of Montana since 1990, particularly in eastern Montana (Figure 5 - 4)(USDA - NASS 2015).

Because as much as I'd love to act for the rest of my life, I could also easily see myself settling down on some acreage with my wife in the future.

Much acreage is devoted to the vast agricultural enterprises of the area.

Once coal and oil became king these regions regained much of the earlier forest acreage.

Much of this new palm oil acreage is coming at the expense of tropical forests.

Audubon's climate model, restricted to the Peregrine Falcon's winter range, forecasts a large expansion of the total acreage of suitable climate space, with much of the projected increase a filling - in of the continent's interior.

Stress free is too much to hope for, fairy tale might come partially true, but what I'd really like right now is a decent acreage on a BC Gulf Island (not my tiny lot) with a bunch of tiny houses and workshops and other people to do the heavy work of maintaining an organic garden and some critters.

In fact, over the entire life cycle of growing and harvesting crops, turning them into fuel, transporting and using them in vehicles, ethanol and biodiesel emit as much CO2 as petroleum — and require infinitely more acreage.

One of the major criticisms of farmers during the current California drought is that so much acreage is being converted to fruit and nut trees (particularly almonds for export), crops that much be irrigated, even during a drought when annual crops can be fallowed.

Though the precise figure of acreage to feed a family of four can vary from one source to another, from One Block Off The Grid (1BOG) comes this helpful infographic showing approximately how much backyard would be needed to provide the alimentary basics for a year.

After all, a family of four living in an acreage house may be looking for a much higher and more comprehensive policy than a senior citizen living in a townhouse complex.

Argentines love their Malbec so much, they've devoted more than 70 per cent of the country's vineyard acreage to the cultivation of this single variety.