"It's not on the water, and has no acreage.
"We have no acreage leased in St .Tammany Parish and no plans to lease there either," Jenkins said.
Barley, dry beans, oats, sorghum, and sugar beets had limited distributions and many counties had no acreage of these crops.
In analyses by crop type, with the reference group as counties with no acreage of the specified crop and <20%% of agricultural land within the county, significant associations were observed between corn density and sympathetic nervous system tumors (OR = 1.3, 95 % CI = 1.1 1.5), and soybeans and sympathetic nervous system tumors (OR = 1.3, 95 % CI = 1.1 1.6) and AML (OR = 1.4, 95 % CI = 1.1 1.7).
The Medollas, who live in Centerport, own no planted acreage but bought others' North Fork grapes, most recently from Sam McCullough, a private grower who also manages Lenz's vineyard.
"The word is out -- Leah nurtures a horse," said Dr. Larry Marcus, a surgeon from Hartford, one of about 40 investors who have kicked in an average of $1,000 to form Castle Village Farm, which has no white fences, no barns, no precious acreage in horse country, just four stalls at Belmont and a new trainer who happens to be a woman.
He was not really respected as a farmer back home: he was a hobbyist, a truck farmer, with no real acreage, just some ducks (that every fall raped one another in a brutal fashion we never got used to), a dog, a tractor, a Web site (a Web site, for Christ's sake!), and two decorative, brockle-headed cows of dubious dairiness.
For evaluation of risk associated with the six leading U.S. crops, counties were classified as "exposed" if that crop was grown in that county, regardless of the percent of the total cropland for the county, and exposed counties were compared with counties that had both no recorded acreage planted in that crop and cropland totaling < 20% of the total county area.
Climate-friendly practices such as promoting the use of certain cover crops, and expanding the acreage under no-till management, which reduces plowing can not only benefit the environment, Vilsack says, but also improve profits.
The committee also said agricultural officials currently approved most proposed plant varieties for field tests, with no limit on acreage, on the basis of a company's written statements.
Stealth seeds made analysis of cotton's performance more difficult since no account of acreage cultivated exists (Herring, 2007a; 2013; Herring & Kandlikar, 2009).
