Sentence examples for land idle from inspiring English sources

When crop prices are high, as they are now, he leans against leaving his land idle.

Government officials have accused white farmers, who control many of the largest farms, of leaving much of their land idle.

Others are pulling land out of the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which pays a per acre fee to farmers who agree to leave their land idle for a decade or more.

In order to compare soils using a wide spectrum of physical and chemical properties, the studied objects (virgin land, post-antique idle land, continually plowed land, modern-day plowed land, idle land of the modern era) have been grouped into a chronosequence.

"If there was no biodiesel farmers would just make their land idle - no food, no feed!" As the UK hits the 5% of liquid fuels mark, the government faces some difficult decisions on how to move forward on this issue as it faces tripling the costs for motorists by 2020.

This extensification process will affect positively those JCAs of mixed farming conditions, but it will have negative impacts on the JCAs of historically low intensity farming (e.g. the uplands of north-west) because they will suffer from under-management and land idling.

These results indicate concentration of agricultural production to better quality land and a growing number of land-idling farms in the region.

Differing NO2 to NO x ratios at different levels of engine thrust might be used to distinguish the contributions of jet landing, idling or takeoff activities.

The government has also increased the tax on land left idle, and speeded up the procedures for its re-distribution.

Where, as in Great Britain, valuation for the property tax rests on income, land held idle or far below its best use will yield little revenue.

Farmers will have to let even more land go idle this year, says Richard Howitt, a professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis.