Thanks to considerable improvements in crop productivity, U.S. planted land has decreased roughly 39 million acres since 1980 (an 11 percent decrease).
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Ethanol mandates are prompting more and more corn to be planted on land that is poorly suited for agriculture, causing erosion and pesticide runoff to infiltrate groundwater and aquifer resources.
The amount of land planted with vines is taking up an excessive amount of agricultural land, Sark's Agriculture Committee has said.
In the Chapare, coca was planted on flat land and could be harvested in its first year.
The troops are also prepared for the dangers posed by land mines planted during the war.
The most U.S. crop land ever planted was 375 million acres, back in 1932.
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That in turn influences how much land is planted to soyabeans, which for American farmers are interchangeable with maize.
Community groups are being invited to apply for one of the tree packs, to be planted on publicly accessible land.
Burgundians believe a wine's character is derived principally from the plot of land the vine is planted on, which is graded by a classification system based on the vineyard, village and subdistrict.
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He cleared land, built dams, planted out new strains of coffee bush and laid pipelines to drip feed the plants with water and fertiliser.
In 1973 he bought an abandoned monastery on 480 acres of untouched mountaintop land overlooking the Adriatic Sea and planted a crop of organic durum wheat.
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Flat land is at a premium, and orchards are planted pragmatically, stepping higgledy-piggledy uphill or weaving a line along thin terraces cut into the hillsides.
The landowners planted hedges because they wanted to define boundaries and create limits to protect their land.
Between 1990 and 2005 Indonesia planted over 3m hectares with oil palms, over half of it on freshly cleared land.
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Between 2000 and 2006 Indonesia planted roughly half a million hectares of oil palm a year, mostly on recently deforested land.
But most of the land at the winery was either shaded by California live oak trees or covered with extensively planted gardens.
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