Sentences with phrase «tons of acres»

We had no TV, no phone, no computer, just had tons of acres to play on.

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Kelly hopes that in the next 10 years he can inspire enough homeowners and businesses to come on board that 50 percent of America's 40.5 million acres of lawn will be switched to organic care, reducing by half the 3 million tons of synthetic fertilizers and 30,000 tons of pesticides used annually.

Premium estates might yield 2 tons of grapes or less an acre with bulk wines yielding many times this amount.

A ton of grapes yields around 720 bottles of wine, so that's only 1,440 per acre - with some super premium wines well below this figure.

Grapes - the grapes that are used for the wine are also important and particularly the yield of the grapes in tons per acre.

OVF farms more than 2,000 acres of 10 or 11 varieties of cherries, and packs approximately 10,000 tons of cherries each year.

Yields of about 1.8 metric tons per hectare are typical (a hectare is 2.47 acres).

About 7,500 acres of pasillas are cultivated in Mexico, primarily in Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Guanajuato, with the annual yield amounting to approximately 3,500 tons of dried pods.

We do this with good grazing management as well as spreading 1 - 3 tons of compost per acre along with the needed amendments / nutrients to bring a balance of air, water and active microbiology.

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.

Working with the Marin Carbon Project, his 500 - acre farm is California's first dairy to develop a 20 - year carbon farming plan to sequester 2,000 metric tons of carbon every year.

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.

The fruit is generally sold by weight; and an acre of land, in a fair state of cultivation, will yield about three tons, — a bushel of the thick - fleshed sort weighing nearly thirty - two pounds.

By Staci Davidson >> Orchard Valley Farms harvests approximately 10,000 tons of cherries from more than 2,000 acres of farms.

The small - but - mighty attraction (64 acres, compared to Brookfield's 216) packs a ton of fun into an easily accessible space.

The Fun Farm has been offered for three years now and features a 15 - acre pumpkin patch, 15 - acre maze, corn cannon, zip line and a corn crib that holds upward of 15 tons of corn.

If you have to add tons of fertilizer per acre you're not really solving anything.

In one case, a power company paid $ 13.7 million to reforest 100,000 acres of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land in Mississippi in the expectation that every acre of trees would absorb enough carbon dioxide to offset 150 tons of greenhouse - gas emissions over the life span of the trees.

Powering an electric vehicle using crops would also prevent the release of up to 10 tons of CO2 per acre compared with a similar sized gasoline - powered car.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

A gallon of gas represents roughly 100 tons of plant matter, the amount that exists in 40 acres of wheat.

And yesterday, the collapse of a coal ash pond in Tennessee buried 12 houses and 400 acres — a reminder of the 129 million tons of radioactive and / or toxic waste left over after coal burning produced in the U.S. each year.

The facility, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, can produce five tons of the mold each hour — enough to blanket more than 1250 acres of crops.

Wet, temperate conifer forests along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California store the most carbon - about 93 metric tons of carbon per acre.

To accomplish that, each acre of land must absorb just 1.5 additional tons of carbon dioxide.

So does the 6,615 - ton (six - million - kilogram) colony of a male quaking aspen tree and his clones that covers 107 acres (43 hectares) of a Utah mountainside.

The Amazon rain forest was the biggest gainer, with two tons of additional biomass per acre per year.

We also recommended applying one ton per acre of chicken litter, twice a year, for one or two years in order to get more organic matter into the thin soil.

Even though the United States has become the world's larger grower of soybeans (producing approximately 83 million metric tons of soybeans on 75 million acres of land), these soybeans are not being cultivated for human food use but for other purposes (their extractable oil and their processing into animal feed).

Their farm has a hundred and eighty acres, a few tons of hay and fifty bushels of corn.

I'm making a pizza the size of the sun, a pizza that's sure to weigh more than a ton, a pizza too massive to pick up and toss, a pizza resplendent with oceans of sauce.I'm topping my pizza with mountains of cheese, with acres of peppers, pimentos, and peas, with mushrooms, tomatoes, and sausage galore, with every last olive they had at the store.My pizza is sure to be one of a kind,...

We have 1/2 acre and there are tons of big rocks in the ground so a self - installed wired fence is a little scary.

We are located on five beautiful acres in Almaden Valley, complete with lots of trees, flowers, beautiful views and tons of space to stretch your legs.

The metro area offers tons of places to get out and experience nature in small ways (an urban downtownpark) and big (a 2,000 - acre preserve).

It is estimated that 250 acres of mangroves produced 4 tons of shrimp a year.

In fertile areas, such as river deltas, mangroves can contribute more than 3 tons per acre per year of organic material.

After 70 acres of asphalt and concrete had been crushed and reused, 87,000 tons of hazardous material removed, and 130,000 plugs of salt grass planted by hand, we had created a gorgeous 100 - acre swath of national parkland — including a restored grassy field, revitalized marsh, new shoreline promenade, and an environmental education facility, the Crissy Field Center, to ensure our stewardship of the land endures in future generations.

On an annual basis, each acre is capable of producing 15 dry - tons of biomass that can be converted thru MAF to a net (after internal consumption) 100 MCF of renewable natural gas, methane — 100 million BTU's.

The Amazon rain forest was the biggest gainer, with two tons of additional biomass per acre per year.

The density of most organic shales is around 2850 tons / acre foot.

Twenty - four companies harvest and cool more than 207,646 tons of sweet berries in the area from 11,538 acres with annual revenues topping $ 300 million to ship them worldwide from the region, known as California's Strawberry Coast

First, given the events of the past weeks in financial markets, I'm not sure how these groups intend to build confidence in a market trading a ton of carbon that is avoided by protecting a forest acre in, say, Borneo, for a ton emitted by a coal - burning power plant in Boston.

I've been told that 4 - 5 tons of added carbon per acre per year is impossible.

There are some who manage well over a ton of C / acre / an.

«If we were to capture 1 ton of carbon per acre per year on the roughly 5 billion hectares of grasslands worldwide, we would remove 12 Gt of C from the atmosphere per year, that is, 6 ppm annually.

Through the adoption of smart carbon farming practices, an acre of land could store anywhere from 10 to 100 tons or more of carbon, which can help both mitigate climate change and improve crop yields.

Taking his biomass yield assumptions of 12 tons an acre at face value (I doubt you can consistently get 12 dry tons per acre at large scale; commercial hay production is only around half that), we can do an interesting calculation.

On average, it takes roughly 41 acres to absorb one ton of carbon emissions.

«If we assume half of the logging residues are available for energy, then on each acre harvested about 7 green tons of wood are available, which equals about 3 dry tons of wood.»

Every acre Scenic Hudson or other conservation groups protects from deforestation keeps 3.5 tons of carbon on the ground, rather than releasing it to the atmosphere, where it adds to the greenhouse effect.