An approach that can be used to mitigate these challenges is sustainable use of low acreage wetlands which are ubiquitous in the study area (Ogban and Babalola 2009; Ogunremi et al. 2000; Thenkabail and Nolte 1996; Windmeijer and Andriesse 1993).
These insecticides are used on a small percentage of field corn acreage; in 2005 surveys, cyfluthrin was used on 7% of acreage (∼76.5 million acres), bifenthrin on 2% and lambda cyhalothrin on 1% [46].
"A patch of 250 plants is considered big these days," said State Trooper Dean Craft who, across 13 years of patrols, has watched the growers become more devious, particularly in using remote acreage of innocent owners or fruitful glades of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Development of a metric that addresses weaknesses inherent in the methods used to date (e.g., weighted measurements of acreage) is needed to evaluate the relationship between the acreage of crop fields in proximity to homes and residential pesticide levels.
Forty-eight percent reported using precision technologies in general to manage some amount of acreage.
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.
We were able to evaluate classes of chemicals and individual chemicals of interest specific to breast cancer, whereas many of the previous studies relied on measures that are more global (e.g., total pounds of all pesticides applied) or used acreage of specific crop types as proxy measures for classes of pesticide exposures.
In general, we use planted acreage (from national agricultural statistical offices) of each crop as a dependent variable in our econometric estimations.1 However, for countries where we do not obtain data on planted acreage, we instead use data on harvested acreage from the FAO of the United Nations, from the United States Department of Agriculture USDAA) or from governmental sources as a proxy.
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.
Or maybe a scalded bit of acreage under his arm.
