Sentences with phrase «number of acres»

Larger tracts are often sold at a price per acre times the number of acres.

The purchaser saw the survey so if the exact number of acres mattered it could have been checked.

First, since the treaties provided for a certain number of acres for each family of four there was a question of the date at which the population should be estimated.

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.»

As a result, the number of acres covered by monarchs and counts of monarch - filled trees are thought to provide reliable estimates of colony size.

In Alaska, the number of acres burned each season varies dramatically but accumulating evidence indicates that climate change is increasing the extent of fire and contributing to extreme events such as the 2015 Alaska fire season, when over 5.1 million acres burned, or the 2016 conflagration in Ft McMurray, Alberta.

A substantial number of acres on or adjacent to the waterfront are available for development — plenty of space for an economically vibrant mix of residential and commercial uses as well as generous amounts of public parkland offering river access to many neighborhoods cut off from the Hudson since the 19th century.

Indirect land use cahnge theory is also based on a false projection — That the number of acres planted in corn would double.

We may take a larger share of the starch from the same number of acres — the same land producing more and more bushels per acre every year.

The number of acres burned has intensified.

The number of acres of forest burning yearly in large Western fires ballooned nine-fold from 1984 to 2015, with climate pollution and natural changes in the weather playing roughly equal roles in driving the deadly trend, research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded.

According to the authors of a new study, the number of acres of land used for certified organic dry bean production has increased significantly in recent years, and a similar trend is occurring across the United States.

Between 1996 and 2011, the number of acres planted with genetically modified crops worldwide went from 4 million to 395 million, a 9,000 percent increase in the space of 15 years.

«The challenge is how to integrate and scale up these and other parts of the solution to treat the number of acres needed to see measureable improvements in water quality,» he said.

«A hundred acres of corn may have a value of just $ 800,000, while the same number of acres planted in strawberries may be worth $ 7.5 million,» said Devasia Manuel, a recent Illinois alumnus.

In past years, the number of acres enrolled in the CRP has dwindled from a peak of 36.8 million in 2007 to 31 million today, according to a Farm Service Agency spokesman.

Yard Size: Each of these can cover a certain number of acres.

Members opted for the smaller number of acres when faced with the option of approving a 507 - acre parcel.

And that, thanks to Smokey and his familiar phrase, we have reduced the number of acres lost to wildfires from -LSB-...]

We «re doing okay as far as number of acres of park land, but it does n`t do you any good to pick up isolated parcels.

It is ironic that in many countries we see the number of acres under third - party organic certification increasing quickly, while the number of certified organic farmers is hardly growing.

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

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

In the western US overall, the average annual number of wildfires that are bigger than 1,000 acres has more than doubled since 1970, according to Climate Central.

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

Sustainability in Numbers As of November 2017, 127 wineries producing more than 74 % (211 million cases) of California's total wine production and 1,099 vineyards farming 134,000 acres (about 22 % of statewide wine acreage) are certified sustainable.

Although Shelton Farms still has its original 40 acres, the company has added a few hundred more acres and sources product from a number of local growers.

While the lion's share of hop production originates in the three PNW states of WA, OR and ID, approximately three percent of U.S. acres are located in 27 other U.S. states; nearly 300 farms comprise the list of hop growers with registered grower numbers.

Consisting of 9000 acres, the Reserve offers a number of interpretive programs and trail walks.

In Sonoma County alone, with close to 60,000 acres under vine, almost 70 percent are insured against any number of the vagaries that can occur — and there is a reason for that.

This deal is part of a larger effort on the part of General Mills to reach a goal of $ 1 billion in organic and natural food sales by 2019 and to increase the number of organic acres from which it sources its ingredients to 250,000 over the next three years.

«One of our greatest accomplishments is the success in growing such a wide number of varieties,» Collins said, noting there are 21 grape varieties growing on 35 acres.

Approximately 200,000 acres of cultivated land produce between 500,000 and 650,000 tons of fresh pods and 30,000 tons of dry pods, making Mexico number six of the chile - producing countries of the world.

Check MOTD and the mistakes we keep on making... we leave acres of space on the flanks and get punished by fast wingers because of the numbers we commit in attack.

The Nursery through twelfth grade curriculum is supplemented by a number of auxiliary programs, including the Parent - Child Program, a summer day camp and extended - day program in Garden City, and our 250 - acre extension campus and farm located in Marlborough, New Hampshire.

A handicapped - accessible playground is being added, the number of parking spaces is being increased and an environmental study of the wetland in the 26 - acre park will be conducted, said Greg Bates, Inverness» director of parks and recreation, and the only full - time Park District employee..

One point of contention during the April election was the number of parks and athletic fields, but land planner Matt Doede said a survey conducted by the Batavia Park District comparing resources with three similar districts, including New Lenox's, indicates that the New Lenox Park District's 420 total acres exceeds the other districts» average of 384 acres.

The number of athletic fields in New Lenox is «consistent with national and state standards,» Doede said, noting that the Park District has 7.5 acres of land per 1,000 residents, compared with the national average of 1 acre per 1,000.

Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin also said the village is fearful the land will be developed with a higher number of housing units than the 2.5 - to 4 - unit - an - acre range that Orland Park would call for.

Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Parks, said New York City «s parks budget is only $ 286 million compared to Chicago «s $ 271 million «while New York has nearly four times the number of park acres and twice the population.

In just one year, New York State has more than tripled the number of growers participating in industrial hemp research, resulting in the planting of approximately 2,000 acres of the crop.

The garden is dominated by an open lawn of 0.5 acres (2,000 m2) that wraps around Numbers 10 and 11 in an L - shape.

The number of apartments allowed to be built on a one - acre property doubled from 6 per acre to 12 per acre — with a 24 unit cap on each development — last year when the Town Board approved Mr. Russell's proposed code change aimed at encouraging affordable housing.

Tomorrow's Commons debate on whether to increase the number of dogs allowed to flush out a fox — a relatively technical legal change which would win no press attention at all if it were a normal bit of legislation - is being accompanied by protests outside parliament, frenzied behind - closed - door talks and acres of press coverage.

Starting dates differ somewhat, but 20 years is a good round number since developers first proposed the resort on some 1,900 acres of land on the Ulster - Delaware border.

The Missile Defense Agency said it would require 1,219 acres at Fort Drum to house an undetermined number of ground - based missile interceptors in underground silos.

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.