Developers have gone from buying foreclosed acreage from banks to buying from farmers, family trusts, manufacturers and even homeowners with outdated homes on single lots.
Being the priest who got to hear the Sun King's confessions was, to judge from the acreage and the view from here, a good gig to have in late-17th-century France.
The area planted with grains increased throughout the 1990s, with sorghum, corn, millet, and rice in particular being harvested from increased acreage.
"It would be a dream come true to have a rural Wal-Mart in Onoway," Ms. Donovan wrote from her acreage near that farming village of some 800 people, an hour's drive northwest of Edmonton.
A running gag in his early days at St Kilda was that when Lockett moved away from the acreage in Cranbourne that housed his beloved greyhounds, sales at local fast food outlets plummeted.
In "A Painting in Santa Fe," a well-meaning but patronizing Anglo couple befriend a Chicano workman, whose anger at them builds along with the pile of brush he is trying to clear from their acreage.
Farmers are adopting smart-sensor technologies and connected farm equipment more quickly than ever, stretching each season to eke out greater yield from finite acreage.
French émigré and programmer started online auction site in 1995, allowed consumers to buy and sell everything from Alaskan acreage to vintage haute couture.
Advanced societies march to the beat of progress and the arrow of progress points to ever increasing density of energy away from large acreage, large land use and large and slow biological processes in favor of small, dense, fast production of energy.
From an acreage perspective, grazing overshadows all other uses of the western public lands — by a long shot.
