Sentence examples for On acreage from inspiring English sources

Some are situated on acreage and some are sited in communities among other single-story homes.

The committee also said agricultural officials currently approved most proposed plant varieties for field tests, with no limit on acreage, on the basis of a company's written statements.

A private consultant, John Schnittker, said the department's reduction in corn yields was "almost unprecedented" and added that the stocks to use ratio was "pretty low, putting real pressure on acreage and yield next year".

Since the enactment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, the United States has had programs designed to limit the production of major farm crops through restrictions on acreage.

Monitoring should be feasible: at a crop-by-crop level, checking how many acres are farmed non-intensively requires only information on acreage and the volume of production, plus occasional inspections.

Instead of subsidies tied to production levels, which were responsible for the infamous mountains of butter and lakes of wine that used to plague European agriculture officials, countries are slowly moving towards compensation based on acreage or historical support levels.

"We're all on acreages, so we keep to ourselves," one tells me.

But it wasn't until 1990 that we purchased a cabin on some acreage and started to come on long weekends.

NASS estimates, on the other hand, were limited in any given year to the crops surveyed in a particular year, and NASS never or rarely surveys pesticide use on crops grown on limited acreage.

Here on this raw acreage on the floodplain between the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers was where two powerfully conceived national interests, that of keeping the economic engine running and that of creating an enlarged middle class, could be seen to converge.

That $750,000 limit applies to only one subsidy program, so-called direct payments that are disbursed based on land acreage and regardless of current market conditions or even whether the land is still actively farmed.