I concur with Brian Williams of NBC's "Nightly News," which has devoted more acreage by far to this story than its broadcast competitors, that Ms. Levy's disappearance has also "brought the science of lie detectors front and center" -- and about time too!
The Hardins have every acre of their mostly rented land planted with corn, soybeans and wheat — devoting more acreage to corn in anticipation of huge demand.
As acreage devoted to coca farming in Bolivia and Peru decreased, cocaine acreage in Colombia increased to 300,000 acres in 1999 from 90,000 acres in 1992.
In order to receive payments, farmers had to agree to limit the acreage devoted to specified crops.
This rapid change made the country more vulnerable to global market fluctuations and, because of an increase in acreage devoted to nonfood export crops, periodic famine.
The survey may have also overstated the decline in biotech acreage devoted to soybeans because of possible miscounting a year ago, he said.
In Patterson, "the apricot capital of the world," the acreage devoted to apricots is dwindling and farmers blame the influx of dried apricots from Turkey.
One local grower, Coke Farms, had to increase its acreage devoted to organic strawberries by more than 30% "because they couldn't keep up with us," he says.
According to Michigan's department of agriculture, Sanilac leads the state in the acreage devoted to soy, corn, wheat, dairy farms and general cattle operations.
A tripling of the acreage devoted to the corn crop over the past 30 years helped increase the boar population, the group said.
