Sentence examples for farmland setting from inspiring English sources

This study revealed that the levels of heavy metals in soils from Kogi farmlands were low and fell within the regulatory standards requirements for metals in farmland setting.

As we drove along the winding two lane country highways that dissect the state's farmland setting, my father pointed out to us towns in which he lived as a child, factories where he spent high school and college summers working, local bowling alleys where he used to relish Friday night fish fries.

Still, she and other insect experts say it is unrealistic to expect farmers to give up the herbicide-tolerant crops — so efforts should be made to preserve or grow milkweed elsewhere, perhaps on farmland set aside for conservation.

People have been pushing in closer to the coast, and the combination of dense new settlements and deforestation for fish ponds and farmland set the stage for the disaster, said Jan Heino, the F.A.O.'s assistant director general for forestry.

In 1908 the Lippens family, which owned some 1,100 hectares, or 2,700 acres, of what was then mostly dunes and farmland, set up Compagnie le Zoute to create a seaside resort in a specifically British, garden-city style, while still keeping family control of the land.

Just 30 years ago, Princeville, Hawaii, which came in as the ninth most expensive in the study, with a median home price of $715,000 in 2004, was a vast expanse of farmland set on a rolling, green bluff above Hanalei Bay on the north shore of Kauai.

In this thought experiment, a virtual farmland is set up and its phylogenetic diversity is statistically predicted for various distances away from the forest.

Advocates, including farm interest lobbyists and lawmakers with a long history of creating and protecting benefits, argue that the new program would save Washington money by replacing a longstanding one costing $5 billion a year, known as direct payments, that pays owners of farmland a set amount regardless of whether they have planted crops.

Along with representatives of other conservation groups, Mr. Kerr has drafted a plan that would have the federal government buy much of the basin's farmland and set it aside as a preserve, while paying premium prices to the farmers to assist in their transition.

If they were hungry for want of arable farmland, they set sail into the unknown to found new colonies, having no other choice but starvation.

For example, the impact of harvesting biomass from millions of acres of farmland now set aside under the USDA Conservation Reserve Program remains to be studied.