In this ecologic study I used wheat acreage as a surrogate for exposure to chlorophenoxy herbicides.
In 2011, 25% of the acreage used for US production of corn grain was devoted to ethanol fuel production based on the historic corn yield for the year and accounting for replacement of soybean oil with the reduced demand for soybean production.
"It is producing more food, but using less acreage.
First, Labour would target the shadowy world of land hoarders, often hedge funds and investors who have no intention of building homes but instead use the acreage as an asset.
"We thought that we had the ideal slope and land for a vineyard," said Bill L. Hopkins, 71, who with his wife, Judith W. Hopkins, 68, decided to use some acreage from pasture land.
"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.
"In the village of Ostředek, just southeast of Prague, I found myself standing waist-deep in a 100-acre field of Papaver somniferum …" — Jeff Gordinier Business Insider Henry Blodgetthethe Insider's editor and chief executive, uses vast acreage on his site to post a swooning slide-show valentine to the recently opened Atera, "The Most Amazing Restaurant In The World".
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.
The VA announced agreements Wednesday with the Brentwood School and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks over their leases on the West L.A. campus, settling the last thorny disputes over how non-veteran enterprises have been using the acreage. .
In this ecologic study I examined ischemic heart disease (IHD) and diabetes mortality in rural agricultural counties of Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, in association with environmental exposure to chlorophenoxy herbicides, using wheat acreage as a surrogate exposure.
