Sentences with phrase «of the acreage planted»

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??? But the price of corn is going to be high enough that people are going to want to plant corn, only that corn acreage is going to come in and infringe on the soybean,» he says, adding that increased Chinese demand for soybean oil will mean fewer acres for cotton — putting even more pressure on an industry that's already feeling the pinch.

You Are Investing in Something Good — The US real estate market has seen better days (like when pioneers raced out West and planted flags in the ground to claim their acreage), but property is one of those things that, when taken care of, can result in many years of income returns.

Leading one of the highest - planted acreages of any AVA, Brannen will oversee the Commission's annual budget to market the Lodi region, facilitate grower education, viticultural research, and expand awareness of the sustainable farming practices of the Lodi Rules ™ — a third - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program started by the Winegrape Commission in 2005.

New Mexico's chile growers plant most of the state's chile acreage to cultivars developed at NMSU or to cultivars that have N M S U cultivars in their pedigrees.

New Mexico growers were surveyed in 1998, and 50 % of their chile pepper acreage was planted with an NMSU cultivar (Skaggs, 2000).

By 2015, approximately 78 percent of the world's cotton acreage was planted with genetically modified seed.

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.

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

Included in the Kenwood sale are all assets of the Kenwood Vineyards brand including the trademarks, inventory, winery facilities and estate vineyards, as well as additional acreage of Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel, Syrah, Malbec, Pinot Blanc and Petite Sirah planted throughout Sonoma County.

Most hybrids accounted for 1 to 4 percent of the planted acreage.

He was able to calculate the acreage planted in each of the 12 hybrids from the hybrid assessment trial.

Three of the five cases are in the United States, where farmers have planted about half of the world's Bt crop acreage.

Planting huge acreages with a single variety of the same genetic makeup meant the entire harvest could be wiped out at once by disease or pests or changes in rainfall.

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

To avoid that, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated that farmers plant part of their acreage with nonmodified crops.

Planted on only five percent of the total vegetable oil acreage, palm oil accounts for 33 percent of vegetable oil, and 45 percent of edible oil worldwide.

This test acreage is fairly small, hardly the equivalent of a full - scale commercial planting, as some environmental groups have accused.

If we increase our consumption of plant proteins, we would need to increase the acreage devoted to raising plants, but some problems of a practical nature in the way agriculture currently is practiced would occur.

Information in the reports includes estimates on planted acreage, yield, and expected production, as well as comparison of production from previous years.

(Recasts top of story with details from USDA report) By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters)-- U.S. farmers will plant a mammoth 88.8 million acres of corn — the second - largest acreage since 1946 — and a record 78.1 million acres of soybeans in response to high prices for the crops, the government said on... read more

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

«The same acreage of land planted with kenaf can yield the equivalent quantity of pulp fibres from wood that takes 20 years to grow,» explains Prof. Roni Aloni from the Plant Sciences Department at TAU.

According to the Organic Trade Association, the total acreage of U.S. farmland planted with organic cotton has increased for the second year in a row.

Across the country, rising fuel and fertilizer costs have dampened the acreage of wheat planted, with more farmers now planting soybeans instead.

However, it was concluded that river diversions and mangrove plantings have the potential to generate the largest volume of offsets in Louisiana due to the huge amount of acreage upon which these restoration techniques can be implemented.

Additional acreage of sorghum and switch grass will be planted near Chickasha and Maysville in central Oklahoma

Corn prices are at a record high despite U.S. farmers planting the largest corn acreage since 1937, according to the Department of Agriculture.

In reality, about 92 percent of all U.S. soybean acreage is planted with GMO seed.

Although several large - scale solar projects in California have sputtered (including two from BrightSource) and technical challenges are considerable, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a move in early July to prioritize more than 300,000 acres of public lands in six Western states for use by utility - scale solar plants, with nearly half of that acreage in California.