Sentences with phrase «percent of the acreage»

In March, oil and gas companies only bought about 1 percent of the acreage on offer in the US» largest offshore auction in history.

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.

Not exact matches

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

Murkowski's office said the ANWR section in question represents about 8 percent of total ANWR acreage.

General Mills has increased its organic acreage by 120 percent since 2009, and it is one of the top five companies sourcing organic ingredients in the U.S.

Organic acreage, meanwhile, increased 37 percent from 2011 to 2016, reaching a total of 5 million acres.

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

New Mexico farmers harvested 72,700 tons of chiles on 12,300 acres in 2009, a 35 percent decline in acreage since 2000, and a far cry from 1992, when acreage reached 34,500.

Representing 28 percent of Oregon vineyard acreage, the 150 member growers voluntarily follow set criteria.

The vintners and growers involved in the program represent more than 70 percent of California's wine production and winegrape acreage.

Since 2002, CSWA's Code Workbook has been used by 1,800 vineyard and winery organizations to self - assess their operations, representing 72 percent of California's winegrape acreage (389,375 acres) and 74 percent of its case production (189 million cases).

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) program has 1,700 wineries and vineyards that have evaluated the sustainability of their operations with CSWA's Code of best practices — representing 70 percent of California's wine acreage and 65 percent of the state's wine shipments.

Self - assessments collected to date represent 29 percent of the state's winegrape acreage, and 53 percent of the state's wine production.

Vineyards and wineries representing more than 70 percent of California's vineyard acreage and wine case production participate in the comprehensive California Sustainable Winegrowing Program, a remarkable scale of accomplishment as California is the world's fourth - largest wine producer.

In the last decade, 1,800 vineyard and winery organizations, representing more than 70 percent of California's winegrape acreage and case production, have participated in CSWA's Sustainable Winegrowing Program.

CSWA now has 1,900 vineyards and wineries as program participants, representing more than 70 percent of California's vineyard acreage and case shipments.

To date, 1,800 vineyard and winery organizations participate in CSWA's sustainability program and they represent more than 70 percent of California's winegrape acreage and case production.

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) Code of best practices has been used by 1,800 wineries and vineyards to evaluate the sustainability of their operations, representing 72 percent of California's winegrape acreage and 74 percent of the state's wine shipments.

These barriers have stymied the growth of organic farm acreage, which is only about one percent of U.S. farmland, despite double - digit annual organic revenue growth.

Garret Godwin and Cody Hope of Southern Produce.Elsewhere at the company, it continues to increase its conventional acreage — more than 3 million bushels annually — and it's up around 5 percent this year a few weeks into the harvest.

- Open space, accounting for at least 25 percent of the total acreage.

The savings would range from as high as 78 percent of property tax revenue for Oneida County down to just 9 percent for low - population, high - acreage Hamilton County.

Four geographic agricultural districts encompass ten percent of Ulster County's acreage, or 71,000 acres.

The city's annual PILOT, she noted, is worth roughly.36 percent of the value of untaxed acreage in Albany.

Nationwide, 4,598 fish advisories encompassed 42 percent of all lake acreage and 36 percent of river miles in 2010.

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

In the most promising BMP scenario, about 1 percent of the land in the watershed, or about 30,000 acres, would need to be converted to buffer strips, and about half the farm acreage would need to have cover crops and subsurface phosphorus applications.

They obtained about 76 completed surveys; those growers operate approximately 30 percent of Florida's citrus acreage.

On a human victim, Oliveira estimates, only about 10 percent of the skin acreage will do.

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.

Seventy - seven percent of voters support producing more of America's oil and natural gas, yet the government keeps 87 percent of federally controlled offshore acreage off - limits to energy development.

While this has resulted in the protection of more than 80,000 agricultural acres — including nearly 11,000 acres by Scenic Hudson — it represents only 11 percent of the region's total farmland, and falls far short of the acreage needed to meet even current needs for local food.

Today, 87 percent of offshore acreage under federal control remains off limits to energy development.

In January 2018, the federal government threatened New York's coastline with its Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Program for 2019 - 2024, proposing to make more than 90 percent of the total offshore acreage in the United States available to oil and gas drilling.

It's surprising, then, that the 1.6 million acres of harvested organic cropland in 2008 comprised a mere 0.52 percent of total crop acreage in the United States, as Savage found.

Despite bipartisan support in Congress and from voters in coastal states, the administration is doubling down on a shortsighted policy that keeps 87 percent of federally controlled offshore acreage off limits to energy exploration.

But 96 percent of the $ 434 million to flow to the state in energy business bonuses, rental, and royalties since 2007 have been from Marcellus producers, who did not begin leasing new acreage until 2008.

Colorado corn acreage is expected to grow by 25 percent this year in response to the high demand for corn - based ethanol, but agricultural economists say fears of resulting higher food prices are largely unfounded.

Gerard said there hasn't been a meaningful expansion in offshore access in decades, and with the Obama administration's recent decision to withdraw areas in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from future exploration and production, 94 percent of offshore acreage under Washington's control is off limits to energy development.

As the Canadian climate has warmed, pine beetles have spread across vast acreages of Canadian forest land: estimated to presently constitute 7 percent of Earth's total forests.

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

The majority of adults with children (another 60 percent, still) are interested in the acreage and square footage of the suburbs.

Since 1970 the restricted acreage rose from 247 million acres to 741 million, about 15 percent of the continent's land surface.