Sentence examples for acreage used from inspiring English sources

In 2011, 25% of the acreage used for US production of corn grain was devoted to ethanol fuel production based on the historic corn yield for the year and accounting for replacement of soybean oil with the reduced demand for soybean production.

Last week, China's Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong announced that he planned to nearly double the acreage used to sow potatoes, from 13 million acres to 25 million, without taking away land from wheat, rice, and corn production.

However, a lack of genetics resources within such conventional breeding programs has meant that attempts to improve tolerance to Verticillium wilt have not been successful with this particular species, which accounts for >90% of the total acreage used for cotton production worldwide (Cai et al., [ 5]).

Here we develop and test a method for estimating in-season crop acreage using a probability sample of field visits and producing wall-to-wall crop type maps at national scales.

Although some farms are being sold to developers, the industry is holding steady, Dr. Bridgen said, because acreage is used more efficiently every year.

In the neighborhood nearer the mall, where Tonya lives now, the houses are scant, speckling open acreage that used to be farms and woodlots.

Much of the rest of the islands' productive acreage is used as pastureland for sheep and cattle, whose flatulence helps explain greenhouse gas emissions triple those of the U.S. on a per capita basis.

These systems also help farmers earn more money by allowing them to plan more acreage while using less water than before.

It is tempting to assume that expanding agricultural acreage and using new technology, like genetically engineered crops, will somehow save the day.

When farmers increase production per acre, they convert less forest acreage and use less water, fuel and other resources.

The correlation coefficients are mostly (except in the case of wheat for the USA) close to unity, indicating that data on harvested acreage can be used as good proxy for planted acreage in our econometric models.