(n.) Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pro- and anti-GM organisations clashed on Tuesday over the accuracy of industry figures that suggested a rise internationally of 8% in the acreage of GM crops in 2011, a 16th straight rise since they were first sold in 1996.
(2) Certain types of questions cannot be asked of women in rural Muslim areas, e.g., questions dealing with acreage of property, supply and demand in the marketplace, and irrigated land.
(3) Unfortunately, as demand went up, the number of organic producers and the acreage of organic farms declined, leading to fears that soon demand would outstrip supply.
(4) low acreage under cultivation, crop failure, and increased malnutrition rates, respectively).
(5) There is expected to be strong interest particularly from companies looking to add new acreage to produce unconventional gas from shale or coal-bed methane.
(6) "The transaction further strengthens our position financially and operationally, and also significantly increases our licensed acreage as we seek to unlock the untapped energy resource that exists in Britain," said Andrew Austin, chief executive of IGas.
(7) As this country continues to increase its food fish output without increasing the water acreage, and environmental wastes continue to plague fish production, we can expect to encounter more zoonotic organisms, especially enteric-like organisms.
(8) "We believe this resulted in more new net acreage than accessed by any of our peers in 2011," said Dudley.
(9) Fires show deforestation extending into the state of Pará, which has second highest deforestation acreage after Mato Grosso.
(10) Little could really be done to make the acreage of shopfloor work harder.
(11) Chemical defoliants are applied to about 40% of the U.S. Cotton acreage as a harvest-aid practice prior to machine picking.
(12) "It's a great week to hide an injunction story, say one wanted to," mused the actor Maureen Lipman, one of the guests invited to review the Sunday papers on the BBC1 news programme, as she surveyed the acreage of royal wedding coverage crowding out almost all other topics.
(13) There are now about 470 vineyards in the UK, with an acreage of more than 4,500, up from less than 2,000 a decade ago.
(14) Big utilities such as E.ON and RWE have won acreage under the Round Three (R3) licensing scheme to develop wind farms many miles off the coast of Britain.
(15) The total acreage grown in Europe is now 0.1% of the cultivable land available and only Spain marginally increased its acreage grown in 2011."
(16) Even if Prideaux does not sell up, he will be compensated for HS2: there will be money for lost acreage, lost production and also “injurious affection”.
(17) Caution should be exercised in using these data to predict health risks associated with sludges containing higher levels of disease agents and with higher sludge application rates and larger acreages treated per farm than used in this study.
(18) Using this system, said Hauter, ISAAA could argue that a field of GM crops that had three genetically engineered traits became three "trait fields", thereby tripling the acreage.
(19) Mangrove plants on the mudflats perished – the acreage was halved between the 1950s and 2009 – while nearby farming land became uncultivable.
(20) Such a ban would apply to 40% of the city’s acreage.
Farm
Definition:
(a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
(a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
(a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
(a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
(a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
(a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
(v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
(v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
(v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.
(v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(4) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(5) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(6) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(7) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(8) Caworth Farms mice, 3 to 4 months of age, received amiloride by daily intraperitoneal injection for 7 days before the left kidney was removed and for an additional 4 days after nephrectomy.
(9) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(10) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(11) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(12) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
(13) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(14) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
(15) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) The present study investigated the effects of family economic stress on parental support and adolescent maladjustment in 622 9th through 12th graders in a Midwestern farm community.
(18) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(19) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(20) In farm B, 16 S. suis strains were recovered from a total of 70 samples.