He added: "Development spreads in concentric circles to larger acreages.
Larger acreages make it cost-effective to spray pesticides by helicopter, for example (if your neighbors don't object).
There is still a large acreage of woodland for instance, in the New Forest, a former royal hunting ground.
Because farm subsidies, old and new, have been tied to production, those cultivating the largest acreage get the biggest payouts.
Citigroup lobbyists infamously drafted 70 lines of an 85-line amendment that protected a large acreage of derivatives from regulation.
At roughly a hundred and twenty thousand acres, the Resnicks' orchards are said to make up the largest acreage of tree crops in the world.
They approve of urbanization, intensified agriculture, nuclear power, aquaculture, and desalination; they disapprove of suburbanization, low-yield farming, and forms of renewable energy with large acreage demands.
Sprinkler irrigation is employed throughout the world, but the largest acreage to make use of the sprinkler method is the approximately 9,900,000 acres (4,006,500 hectares) in the United States.
It knows that younger farmers, and those with a large acreage, think that they can get better returns if they are free to sell in the market.
